Name: The Word of the Speechless: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)
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Author: Julio Ramón Ribeyro
ISBN: 9781681373232

portada The Word of the Speechless: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julio Ramón Ribeyro

Publisher

Nyrb Classics

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781681373232

Synopsis "The Word of the Speechless: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics) (in English)"

Available in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest South American writers of the 20th century.The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, Ribeyro said about his stories, “in most of [them] those who are deprived of words in life find expression—the marginalized, the forgotten, those condemned to an existence without harmony and without voice. I have restored to them the breath they’ve been denied, and I’ve allowed them to modulate their own longings, outbursts, and distress.” This is work of deep humanity, imbued with a disorienting lyricism that is Ribeyro’s alone. The Word of the Speechless, edited and translated by Katherine Silver, introduces readers to an indispensable and unforgettable voice of Latin American fiction.

Julio Ramón Ribeyro

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Julio Ramón Ribeyro estudió Letras y Derecho en la Universidad Católica de Lima. En 1960 emigró a París, donde trabajó como periodista en France Presse y, posteriormente, como consejero cultural y embajador ante la UNESCO. Sus obras han sido traducidas a numerosos idiomas y ha sido galardonado con el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 1983, el Nacional de Cultura en 1993, ambos en Perú, y el Juan Rulfo en 1994. Dueño de una obra que toca una inmensa gama de registros, su producción cuentística es una de las más fecundas y significativas del siglo XX. Entre sus colecciones de relatos figuran Los gallinazos sin plumas (1954), Cuentos de circunstancias (1958), Las botellas y los hombres (1964), Tres historias sublevantes (1964), Los cautivos (1972), El próximo mes me nivelo (1972), Silvio en El Rosedal (1977), Sólo para fumadores (1987) y Relatos santacrucinos (1992).

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