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.

Nest in the Bones: Stories by Antonio di Benedetto

Literature & Fiction

DI BENEDETTO, ANTONIO

Dramas & Plays

Archipelago

An NYRB Classics Original First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires, where everything about his hopeless existence will, he is confident, be miraculously transformed and made good. Don Diego’s slow, nightmarish slide into the abyss is not just a tale of one man’s perdition but an exploration of existential, and very American, loneliness. Zama, with its stark dreamlike prose and spare imagery, is at once dense and unforeseen, terse and fateful, marked throughout by a haunting movement between sentences, paragraphs, and sections, so that every word seems to emerge from an ocean of things left unsaid. The philosophical depths of this great book spring directly from its dazzling prose.

Zama (New York Review Books Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

NYRB Classics

In post-WWII South America, a struggling writer embarks on a murderous thought experiment to help kickstart his career in this next tale of longing fromthe author ofZama. The Silentiary takes place in a nameless Latin American city during the early 1950s. A young man employed in mid-level management entertains an ambition to write a book of some sort. But first he must establish the necessary precondition, which the crowded and noisily industrialized city always denies him, however often he and his mother and wife move in search of it. He thinks of embarking on his writing career with something simple, a detective novel, and ponders the possibility of choosing a victim among the people he knows and planning a crime as if he himself were the killer. That way, he hopes, his book might finally begin to take shape. This is the second of the three novels by Antonio Di Benedetto that have come to be known as the Trilogy of Expectation, after the dedication "To the victims of expectation" in the first volume, Zama. Together these three works constitute, in Juan Jose Saer's words, "one of the culminating moments of twentieth-century narrative fiction in Spanish."

The Silentiary (New York Review Books; Classics)

The Suicides

Genre Fiction

Zama

Literary

CORTI

Adriana Hidalgo Editora

Los suicidas

Cuentos Andinos

ARGUEDAS, JOSÉ MARÍA

ALEGRIA, Ciro.

Ferreiro, Celso Eminio

Pietri, Arturo Uslar

VARIOUS

United States

Editorial Popular

Antologia de cuentos de amor de autores espanoles y hispanoamericanos del siglo XX. Esta antologia esta dividida en cuatro grandes secciones. Son las cuatro vertientes del amor, cuentos de amantes.

Cuentos de amor (Spanish Edition)

Bianciotti, Héctor

Chacel, Rosa

Monzó, Quim

Castán, Carlos

Díez, Luis Mateo

Cross, Esther

Berrón, Linda

Tizón, Eloy

Suárez, Carmen Cecilia

ONETTI,JUAN CARLOS

BIOY CASARES, ADOLFO

Quiñones, Fernando

Vázquez, Manuel

Hatero, Josan

Álamo, Antonio

Belaval, Emilio S.

Cueto, Alfonso

Peyrou, Óscar

Rododera, Mercé

Sylvester, Santiago

Wolfe, Roger

Short Stories & Anthologies

Páginas de Espuma

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