Nest in the bones
Subtitle: stories
By: by Antonio Di Benedetto ; translated from the Spanish by Martina Broner
Contributors: Broner, Martina, translator
Edition: First Archipelago books edition.
Publisher: Archipelago
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780914671725
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Philosophically engaged and darkly moving, the twenty stories in Nest in the Bones span three decades from Antonio di Benedetto's wildly various career. From his youth in Argentina to his exile in Spain after enduring imprisonment and torture under the military dictatorship during the so-called "dirty war" to his return in the 1980s, Benedetto's kinetic stories move effortlessly between genres, examining civilization's subtle but violent imprint on human consciousness. A late-twentieth century master of the short form and revered by his contemporaries, Nest in the Bones is the first comprehensive volume of Benedetto's stories available in English"--
Notes: Translation from Spanish of selected short stories.
Table of contents: title: Nest in the bones --; title: Reduced --; title: We fly --; title: Purity saved --; title: Huddled --; title: No --; title: Abandonment and passivity --; title: The horse in the salt flats --; title: The affection of dimwits --; title: Aballay --; title: Fish --; title: Obstinate observer --; title: Italo in Italy --; title: Tropics --; title: The impossibility of sleep --; title: Lazarillo of Hermosilla --; title: Orthopterans --; title: Hands in the night --; title: Premature wait --; title: Paternal epistle to Fabia --; title: Very early morning in the cemetery.