Name: Yesterday (in English)
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Author: Emar, Juan ; McDowell, Megan ; Zambra, Alejandro
ISBN: 9780811231572

Type

Physical Book

Author

Juan Emar

Introduction by

Alejandro Zambra

Translated by

Megan McDowell

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.2 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9780811231572

Synopsis "Yesterday (in English)"

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.

Alejandro Zambra

(Introduction by)

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Alejandro Zambra (Santiago de Chile, 1975) ha publicado entre otros, las novelas Bonsái (2006), La vida privada de los árboles (2007), Formas de volver a casa (2011) y Poeta chileno (2020), el libro de cuentos Mis documentos (2014), las colecciones de ensayos No leer (2018) y Tema libre (2019), y un par de libros bastante más difíciles de clasificar, como el particularísimo Facsímil, que Anagrama recuperó en 2021, y Literatura infantil (2023), una serie de relatos, de ficción y no ficción, sobre infancia y paternidad.

Sus novelas han sido traducidas a veinte lenguas, y sus relatos han aparecido en revistas como The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta, Harper’s y McSweeney’s. Ha sido becario de la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York y ha recibido, entre otras distinciones, el English Pen Award, el O. Henry Prize y el Premio Príncipe Claus.

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