The One Before
Published on 25. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
158 pages
978-1-934824-78-8 (ISBN)
Description
Featuring some of Saer's most loved characters, The One Before is his first story collection to appear in English.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester, NY
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-934824-78-8 (9781934824788)
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Person
Juan José Saer was the leading Argentinian writer of the post-Borges generation. The author of numerous novels and short-story collections (including Scars and La Grande), Saer was awarded Spain's prestigious Nadal Prize in 1987 for The Event.
Roanne Kantor is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Her translation of The One Before won the 2009 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. Her translations from Spanish have appeared in Little Star magazine, Two Lines, and Palabras Errantes: Latin American Literature in Translation.
Roanne Kantor is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Her translation of The One Before won the 2009 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. Her translations from Spanish have appeared in Little Star magazine, Two Lines, and Palabras Errantes: Latin American Literature in Translation.
Content
Arguments
A Layman's Thoughts on Painting
Regarding a Literary Argument
The Biography of Higinio Gómez
The Interpreter
Scent Memory
A Historian's Insomnia
The Septuagenarian Poet
The Lookalike
Argument over the Term Zone
Anonymous Biography
Hands and Planets
The Mourner
Regarding Autumn Siestas
Friends
Beaches
Gandia's Bar
White Hot
A Change of Residence
Veiled
The Mirror
My Name is Pigeon Garay
Memories
The Traveler
Abroad
The Scattering
The Body
On Dry Shore
Letter to the Seer
Half-Erased
The One Before
A Layman's Thoughts on Painting
Regarding a Literary Argument
The Biography of Higinio Gómez
The Interpreter
Scent Memory
A Historian's Insomnia
The Septuagenarian Poet
The Lookalike
Argument over the Term Zone
Anonymous Biography
Hands and Planets
The Mourner
Regarding Autumn Siestas
Friends
Beaches
Gandia's Bar
White Hot
A Change of Residence
Veiled
The Mirror
My Name is Pigeon Garay
Memories
The Traveler
Abroad
The Scattering
The Body
On Dry Shore
Letter to the Seer
Half-Erased
The One Before