From one of Argentina's greatest contemporary storytellers, The Scent of Buenos Aires gathers twenty-five of Hebe Uhart's most remarkable and incandescent short stories in English for the first time. The Scent of Buenos Aires offers the first book-length English translation of Uhart's work, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life: moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a cacophonous homeowners association meeting. She writes in unconventional, understated syntax, constructing a delightfully specific perspective on life in South America. These stories are marked by sharp humor and wit: discreet and subtle, yet filled with eccentric and insightful characters. Uhart's narrators pose endearing questions about their lives and environments - one asks "Bees - do you know how industrious they are?" while another inquires, "Are we perhaps going to hell in a hand basket?"

The Scent of Buenos Aires: Stories by Hebe Uhart

Literature & Fiction

UHART, HEBE

Humor & Satire

Archipelago

Hebe Uhart's Animals tells of piglets that snack on crackers, parrots that rehearse their words at night, southern screamers that lurk at the front door of a decrepit aunt s house, and, of course, human animals, whose presence is treated with the same inquisitive sharpness and sweetness that marks all of Uhart's work. Animals is a joyous reordering of attention towards the beings with whom we share the planet. In prose that tracks the goings on of creatures who care little what we do or say, a refreshing humility emerges, and with it a newfound pleasure in the everyday.

Animals

Essays & Correspondence

Uhart reinvigorates our desire to connect with other people, to love the world, to laugh in the face of bad intentions, and to look again, more closely: from lapwings, road-side pedicures, and the overheard conversations of nurses and their patients, to Goethe and the work of the Bolivian director Jorge Sanjines. 'It was a year of great discovery for me, learning about these people and their homes,' Hebe Uhart writes in the opening story of&nbsp;A Question of Belonging, a collection of texts that traverse Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Spain, and beyond. Discoveries sprout and flower throughout Uhart's oeuvre, but nowhere more so than in her cronicas, Uhart's preferred method of storytelling by the end of her life. For Uhart, the cronica meant going outside, meeting others. It also allowed the mingling of precise, factual reportage and the slanted, symbolic narrative power of literature. Here, Uhart opens the door on all kinds of people. We meet an eccentric priest who conducts experiments d

A Question of Belonging: Crónicas

ANIMALES

Adriana Hidalgo Editora

Este volumen forma parte de un conjunto de tres libros con la obra completa de Hebe Uhart. Al de novelas (ya publicado) y cuentos, le seguirán las crónicas. La presente edición incluye todos sus volúmenes de cuentos: Primeros cuentos, El budín esponjoso, La luz de un nuevo día, Guiando la hiedra, Del cielo a casa, Turistas, Un día cualquiera y otros cuentos dispersos y breves.

Cuentos completos

Genre Fiction

Antologia tematica de cuentos espanoles y hispanoamericanos en torno a los animales y las mascotas. Incluye Guillermo Blanco, Homero Carvalho Oliva, Miguel Delibes, Alberto Escudero, Medardo Fraile, Sara Gallardo, Juan Garcia Hortelano, Maria Teresa Leon, Clarice Lispector, Francisco Alejandro Mendez, Juan Jose Millas, Marco Antonio Rodriguez, Alberto Ruy Sanchez, Guillermo Samperio, Armonia Sommers, Bruno Soreno, Ana Maria Shua, Hebe Uhart, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Beatriz Valdivieso

Parientes lejanos: Cuentos de animales (Narrrativa Breve / Brief Narrative) (Spanish Edition)

Samperio, Guillermo

MILLÁS, JUAN JOSÉ

Lispector, Clarice

Gallardo, Sara

Somers, Armonía

Ruy Sánchez, Alberto

León, María Teresa

SÁNCHEZ FERLOSIO, Rafael

DELIBES, MIGUEL

Shua, Ana María

Rodríguez, Marco Antonio

Uslar Pietri, Arturo

Fraile, Medardo

Escudero, Alberto

Valdivieso, Beatriz

Carvalho Oliva, Homero

Blanco, Guillermo

Soreno, Bruno

Méndez, Francisco Alejandro

García Hortelano, Juan

Paletta, Viviana

Sáez de Ibarra, Javier

Páginas de Espuma

La luz de un nuevo día (Capítulo. Las nuevas propuestas) (Spanish Edition)

Centro Editor de América Latina

Nacida en Moreno, provincia de Buenos Aires, Hebe Uhart estudió filosofía en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Trabajó como docente (primaria, secundaria y universitaria) y colaboró con el suplemento cultural del diario El país de Montevideo. Escribió notas de viajes, crónicas de personajes y situaciones. Publicó, entre otros títulos, el libro de cuentos La luz de un nuevo día (1983); la novela Camila asciende (1987); el relato memorias de un pigmeo (1992); la nouvelle Mudanza (1995), Guiando la hiedra (cuentos, 1997), Del cielo a casa (cuentos, 2003), Turistas (cuentos, 2008) y Relatos reunidos (2010).

Viajera Crónica (Spanish Edition)

Travel

Travel Writing

Adriana Hidalgo Editora S.A.

De La Patagonia A Mexico

NOVELAS REUNIDAS - HEBE UHART

AH Adriana Hidalgo Editora

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