Review of Contemporary Fiction, October 1st, 2002
Felisberto Hernandez. Lands of Memory. Trans. Esther Allen. New Directions, 2002. 190 pp. $24.95. Lauded as a founding father of magical realism by its favorite sons-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, and others-the eccentric Felisberto Hernandez has received little attention in English-language circles. With Lands of Memory, New Directions provides a rounded collection that should endure more prominently than the only previous Hernandez translation, the hard-to-find Piano Stories. The handsome green volume contains two novellas and four stories, each meditative and semi-autobiographica...
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