Piano Stories

by Felisberto Hernandez, Luis Harss (Translator), Italo Calvino (Introduction), Francine Prose (Preface by)

Overview

From the writer adored by the likes of García Marquez, Calvino, and Francine Prose comes a collection of Hernández's classic tales

Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernández, “a writer like no other,” as Italo Calvino declares in his introduction: “like no European or Latin American. He is an ‘irregular,’ who eludes all classifications and labellings — yet he is unmistakable on any page to which one might randomly open one of his books.” Piano Stories contains classic tales such as “The Daisy Dolls,” “The Usher,” and “The Flooded House.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811221818
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	01/20/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	473 KB

About the Author

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1902, Felisberto Hernández was a talented pianist, playing in the silent-screen movie theaters when he was twelve years old. He later toured the small concert halls of Uruguay and Argentina. He married four times,published seven books, and died, impoverished, in 1964.
Born in Brooklyn, Francine Prose has published fourteen novels. The Washington Post has called her work a “sheer delight.”

Editorial Reviews

Poetry that transforms the ordinary into the uncanny.— Bookforum

Excellent … miraculously alive … wonderful.— Michael Pye - The New York Times Book Review

A vision of such startling beauty that it flares up like an old-fashioned phosphorous match and illuminates our whole lives.— Francine Prose

From the Publisher