NEWS & EVENTS • NEW TITLES • CATALOG • ABOUT US • CONTACT • PROFESSORS • BLOGS • NEWSLETTER

Lands of Memory, by Felisberto Hernandez

Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen

"If I hadn't read the stories of Felisberto Hernandez in 1950, I wouldn't be the writer I am today." --Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lands of Memory presents a half-dozen wonderful works by Felisberto Hernandez: "A writer like no other," Italo Calvino declared, "like no European or Latin American. He is an 'irregular,' who eludes all classification and labels - yet he is unmistakable on any page to which one might randomly open one of his books." Named a Guardian Best Book of the Year by Alfred Brendel and A TLS Best Book of the Year by Michael Hofmann (who calls Felisberto "a loopier, vegetarian Kafka, inhabiting his mazy personal baroque"), Lands of Memory collects four astonishing stories and the two dreamlike novellas, "Around the Time of Clemente Colling" and "Lands of Memory."

Date of publication: July 2008