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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed 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), \u003cem\u003eLands of Memory\u003c\/em\u003e collects four astonishing stories and the two dreamlike novellas Around the Time of Clemente Colling and Lands of Memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50123413815569,"sku":"GOR003082703","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50959730540817,"sku":"CIN0811217531G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811217531.jpg?v=1751011614"},{"product_id":"piano-stories-book-felisberto-hernandez-9780941419543","title":"Piano Stories","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50186514137361,"sku":"CIN0941419541G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52817360748817,"sku":"CIN0941419541VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0941419541.jpg?v=1750850903"},{"product_id":"las-hortensias-y-otros-cuentos-book-felisberto-hernandez-9781934768426","title":"Las Hortensias Y Otros Cuentos","description":"Acclaimed by the initiated, Felisberto Hernandez has long been considered a writer's writer, more admired by his colleagues than known by the public at large (Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University). As with his predecessors in the genre of the strange Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka, the apparent eccentricities in Felisberto Hernandez's stories create a coherent system of allusions and correspondences, a system that reaches its summit in masterpieces such as Las Hortensias and La casa inundada. As Hoffmann, who preceded him, and Cortazar, who followed, Felisberto turned away from the literary trends of his times and departed on his own journey, undertaking the task of redefining the human being and replacing the accepted notion of material reality with what he called the mystery small and deep daily realities that fall outside an ever narrowing focus on the homogenous and utilitarian. A trained musician and composer, Felisberto elaborated his literary compositions as musical structures, based on the relations among notes and phrases. Thus, Felisberto Hernandez's short stories cannot be approached and read as isolated pieces if the reader intends to grasp the complexity lying deep below the surface. In this edition Ana Maria Hernandez -who bears the same name as Felisbertos' second daughter and teaches Advanced Spanish Composition at CUNY- analyzes the gradual development of Felisberto's theory and praxis of composition by commenting on his most representative short stories and emphasizing the intertextuality of the recurring symbols and themes throughout his literary production. \u2028This approach transforms this edition in an exceptional basis for Creative Writing and Advanced Spanish Composition courses, exposing students to texts that exerted a noticeable influence upon acclaimed writers such as Julio Cortazar -his biggest fan- Juan Carlos Onetti, and Italo Calvino, and provoked one of the biggest critical blunders by the otherwise sharp critic Emir Rodriguez Monegal.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395070595345,"sku":"CIN1934768421G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51054840381713,"sku":"NIN9781934768426","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52132269523217,"sku":"NLS9781934768426","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1934768421.jpg?v=1750726726"},{"product_id":"narrativa-reunida-collected-stories-book-felisberto-hernandez-9788420435428","title":"Narrativa reunida \/ Collected Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eTodos los cuentos del escritor uruguayo que deslumbró a Cortázar, Onetti, García Márquez e Italo Calvino.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eUn autor magistral cuyos relatos aúnan con gran originalidad lo cotidiano con lo extraordinario.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Los relatos de Felisberto Hernández, en su esfera de rarezas y a veces en el borde de lo fantástico, abordan la realidad de una manera tan inaudita como certera, para devolvérnosla de tal forma que nos hace pensar que lo que los demás llamábamos así es una construcción arbitraria que tan solo presentíamos, pero que no acertábamos a nombrar.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e La suya es una literatura del recuerdo, de la memoria como ficción y como espejo de la verdad al mismo tiempo, con una marca autobiográfica de fronteras difusas que a la vez es superada por una imaginación desbordante.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Felisberto Hernández es, por estos motivos, entre muchos otros, una de las figuras decisivas de la literatura uruguaya y, también, de la narrativa en lengua española del siglo XX.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAll the stories by the Uruguayan author who dazzled Cortázar, Onetti, García Márquez, and Italo Calvino. A masterful author whose tales cleverly unite the everyday with the extraordinary.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The tales of Felisberto Hernández, in their realm of eccentricities and sometimes bordering on fantasy, take on reality in such an unprecedented yet accurate way that it makes us think that what the rest of us called \"reality\" before was an arbitrary construction that we merely sensed, but that we didn't name properly. His is a literature of memory, of memoir as fiction but also as a mirror of the truth, with an autobiographical style of vague boundaries and boundless imagination. 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