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Reading Cortázar’s Bestiario as a teenager was my literary “listening to the Sex Pistols” moment. Letter to a Young Lady in Paris by Julio Cortázar All her most interesting traits are there: a certain linguistic strangeness, the subversion of domestic space, the sadistic brutality of everyday life, and the metafictional bent that would explode in her later works.ħ. Choosing a single story by one of Latin America’s finest writers is a cruel exercise but a great entry point to her work is The Fifth Story, from her book The Foreign Legion. It is nothing short of miraculous that all of Lispector’s short fiction is available in English. Miraculous … Clarice Lispector in Rio de Janeiro, circa 1964. Before this tragic end he gifted us in Perfumada Noche one of the most evocative opening sentences ever written: “The life of a man is a miserable draft, a handful of sorrows that fit in just a few lines.” Conti was disappeared by the Argentinian military junta in 1976. Unlike his novel Southeaster but along with much of his work, this story remains untranslated into English.
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Perfumada Noche (Scented Night) by Haroldo ContiĪ beautiful ode to life, love, and death in a small town in the Province of Buenos Aires. Legend has it Borges said that 50 years would have sufficed for One Hundred Years of Solitude, but not one word is a word too many in this magnificent story.ĥ. In this one, a wealthy couple on their honeymoon in Europe go through a dramatic, Kafkaesque ordeal, taking the reader on a suffocating journey. The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow by Gabriel García Márquezīetter known for his immortal novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Colombian García Márquez was also the author of outstanding short stories. But are children also capable of evil? A dark but satisfying read by an Argentinian short story talent which deserves to be read more widely.Ĥ. That this story explores adults’ capacity for wrong is clear from its opening paragraph. It might sound like a spoiler but this act of karmic justice is just the beginning. Rulfo only published two books in his lifetime but his influence can still be felt.Ī disturbing tale of perversion and revenge in which a child narrowly escapes abuse by pushing her attacker into a construction site hole. The Llano in Flames, from the homonymous book perfectly embodies his style: economy of prose, sensorial images that in their attention to nature greatly capture the essence of rural Mexico, characters who seem to exist beyond life and death. Rulfo achieved world fame with his novel Pedro Páramo but his short stories are equally worthy of attention. Imaginary lands and imaginary planets, forged volumes of the British Encyclopaedia and forged quotes – a Borgesian favourite – come together in this tale where fiction writes itself into reality in which one can’t be told from the other. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borgesįew stories better capture the power of writing than this one by Argentina’s most famous literary export.
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Photograph: Christopher Pillitz/Getty Imagesġ. Jorge Luis Borges at home in Buenos Aires. And if I had to choose which books to preserve on a bookshelf of posterity I would salvage this unassuming genre and toss many an oversize novel, especially those written by otherwise excellent short-story writers. The form is valued by readers, publishers and critics alike, cherished for its close connection to storytelling as oral tradition, and second to none in the region’s canon. It is in the short story that our authors excel, and this is a hill I am willing to die on. What’s wrong with calling a book of short stories “a book of short stories”?Ĭoming both literally and literarily from Latin America, these idiosyncrasies have always puzzled me. Call me picky, but this has always been a problematic word for me, because it masks the fact that this kind of book – if any good – is still a coherent conceptual unit: stories don’t grow spontaneously, like weed, so that writers can simply collect them. But the hapless short-story book is still generally referred to as a “collection” in English. The latter tendency is falling out of fashion, thank God (thanks in large part to indie presses). S hort stories: how not to despair with the unjust way they are treated in the world of British letters? From their frequent definition in terms of what they are not – a novel – to the reluctance of risk-averse publishers when it comes to releasing one of these not-novels into the world.