ReviewsA vision of such startling beauty that it flares up like an old-fashioned phosphorous match and illuminates our whole lives., If I hadn't read the stories of Felisberto Hernandez in 1950, I wouldn't be the writer I am today.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal863.6
SynopsisPiano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hern ndez, "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.", 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.", 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."