Yesterday

For the first time in English, a mind-bending, surreal masterpiece by "the forerunner of them all” (Pablo Neruda)

In the city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a man, while urinating, goes bungee jumping through time itself—and manages to escape. Or does he? Witness the weird machinery of Yesterday, where the Chilean master Juan Emar deploys irony, digression, and giddy repetitions to ratchet up narrative tension again and again and again, in this thrilling whirlwind of the ecstatically unexpected—all wed to the happiest marriage of any novel, ever.

Born in Chile at the tail end of the nineteenth century, Juan Emar was largely overlooked during his lifetime, and lived in self-imposed exile from the literary circles of his day. A cult of Emarians, however, always persisted, and after several rediscoveries in the Spanish-speaking world, he is finally getting his international due with the English-language debut of Yesterday, deftly translated by Megan McDowell. Emar's work offers unique and delirious pleasures, and will be an epiphany to anglophone readers.

Übersetzung

Megan McDowell

Sprache

Englisch

Schlagworte

chile surrealism lvaro yez bianchi south american surrealism Alejandro Zambra Chile chilean literature Surrealist literature South American Zambra

ISBN-13

978-0-8112-3158-9 (9780811231589)

Schweitzer Klassifikation

Literatur Literatur nach Ländern (A-Z)Südamerika

DNB DDC Sachgruppen

Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft

BISAC Klassifikation

Fiction Absurdist

Fiction Classics

Fiction Literary

Fiction South America (General)

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New Directions Publishing Corporation

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Juan Emar is the pen name of Chilean writer, painter, and art critic Álvaro Yánez Bianchi. Born in Chile in 1893, he was a strong advocate of the artistic avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s, and his critical writings helped revolutionize the art scene in his country. Under-appreciated in his time, he is now considered to be one of the most important 20th-century Latin American writers.

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