Calvert Casey: The Collected Stories by Casey, Calvert

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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822321653
ISBN-13
9780822321651
eBay Product ID (ePID)
859516

Product Key Features

Book Title
Calvert Casey : the Collected Stories
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Genre
Fiction
Author
Calvert. Casey
Book Series
Latin America in Translation Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.6 in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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97-032272
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"Casey's mildly tragic life and meagre oeuvre are being rediscovered by a new generation of Latin Americans, who've had enough of the magic realist/political masters and their sensual and linguistic excesses. A wholesale 'structural readjustment' has taken place within the culture: if Casey was obscured during the age of thick tomes, his economical, almost ecological restraint in dealing with both the gross and the infinitesimal now provides a precedent for younger writers, while the crucial ineptitude for living that he expresses is entirely appropriate for the disabled nineties." -LRB, 1 April 1999, "Out of Havana arrives one of the most significant Hispanic American writers . . . Calvert Casey, nourished by the Western literary tradition, yet, obstinately, almost obsessively, 'local.' . . . With memories of Havana as a colony and of slavery, of the brothels and black witchcraft and uninterrupted sensuality in an uninterrupted dialogue with the dead, Casey . . . began to write far from Cuba out of nostalgia. It led him to return to Cuba and to submerge himself anew in the old city known rock by rock, ghost by ghost, ensuring never to be separated from her again."--Italo Calvino, written in 1966, reprinted in Quimera no. 26 (Dec. 1982), "Out of Havana arrives one of the most significant Hispanic American writers . . . Calvert Casey, nourished by the Western literary tradition, yet, obstinately, almost obsessively, 'local.' . . . With memories of Havana as a colony and of slavery, of the brothels and black witchcraft and uninterrupted sensuality in an uninterrupted dialogue with the dead, Casey . . . began to write far from Cuba out of nostalgia. It led him to return to Cuba and to submerge himself anew in the old city known rock by rock, ghost by ghost, ensuring never to be separated from her again."-Italo Calvino, written in 1966, reprinted in Quimera no. 26 (Dec. 1982)
Table Of Content
Introduction / Ilan Stavans vii A Note on the Text xxi Translator's Note / John H. R. Polt xxiii The Walk 1 In San Isidro 13 Homecoming 17 Potosí 33 My Aunt Leocadia, Love, and the Lower Paleolithic 39 The Sun 51 A Little Romance 62 The Visitors 73 Love: The River Almendares, Now Full-Grown, Is Twelve Million Years Old 90 Happiness 95 The Execution 104 The Master of Life and Death 118 Polonaise Brillante 163 Goodbye . . . and Thanks for Everything 167 In Partenza 177 On the Avenue 180 Piazza Margana 187
Synopsis
Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection brings all of Casey's powerful short stories and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Exploring the human condition through poetically unique yet torturous views of the mind, Casey was a renegade artist whose work perceives reality as a smoke screen behind which Truth is hidden. He intended his fiction to disturb and subvert standard, plot-driven views of life. Born in the United States, Casey was raised in Cuba and spent most of his life there and in Europe. He chose Spanish as his primary artistic tongue. A member of the intelligentsia surrounding Castro in the early years of the revolution, he was eventually exiled--and in 1969 committed suicide in Rome at the age of forty-five. Although most of his luminous stories are set in Havana, his is not a touristy, picturesque landscape but an often strange and nightmarish theater of human passions, inhabited by figures--silhouettes, really--that live on the edge of normality. This volume, which showcases Casey's mastery of the skill of indirect and gradual revelation, is the most complete to appear in any language and includes a biographical and critical introduction written by Ilan Stavans, the noted novelist and scholar of Hispanic culture. Readers interested in the art of fiction and in the complexities of the human psyche will find Casey's work irresistible., The short stories of Cuban and American writer, Calvert Casey, who bridged two cultures, two languages and two sexual identities.
LC Classification Number
PQ7390.C3A6 1998

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