Lands of Memory (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Felisberto Hernández
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The early to mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Uruguay and Argentina
- Principal Characters: author, Clemente Colling, Señora Muñeca, Filomena, friend, poetry reciter
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Letter writing, Wit or humor, Depression, mental, Argentina or Argentineans, Pianos or pianists, South America or South Americans, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Sales personnel, Spain or Spanish people
- Locales: Argentina, Uruguay
Esther Allen, the translator of Lands of Memory, provides in the prologue a small biography of Felisberto Hernández in which she outlines his peculiar life (he was a concert pianist who began as a piano player for silent films when he was twelve, he recorded the titles of tango music on state radio to protect the composers from theft, he worked as a stenographer, he started a bookstore that failed because he paid no attention to it, and he had four wives) and his humorous and eccentric way of seeing things (for example, “He had a habit of comparing pianos to coffins,” and...
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