Animal world / The affection of fools
STORIES, 1953/1961. EDITION BY ADRIANA HIDALGO EDITORA, 2013. 188 PAGES
With hallucinatory monologues that approach the contours of fantastic literature, this edition brings together the stories from his first book of short stories Animal World (1953) with those from The Affection of Fools (1961).
Antonio Di Benedetto's short fiction creates a universe hardly comparable, in which he displays a brilliant conciseness and a powerful prose full of tension.
«Di Benedetto continues to let readers hear his hallucinated monologues, which often advance to the very frontiers of fantastic literature. There, on that thin line, they stop. Ambiguity, decisive ambiguity is his destiny.»
Pablo de Santis, Rolling Stone
«Ethical questions have been an insistent concern of Di Benedetto's, ever since the stories in Mundo animal, his first book, where he chose Aesop-like fables to make his moral critique of the human order clear».
Ovaldo Aguirre, La Capital
«Antonio Di Benedetto's narrative constitutes an autonomous universe, uncatalogable, totally personal: a universe where the dialogue with Borges, with Kafka, with the techniques of the nouveau roman, dissolves in the background, overshadowed by the conciseness, the strangeness, the power and tension of a prose rarely seen in the Spanish language».
Mariano Dupont, Los Inrockuptibles
PUBLICADO POR: Spanish ADRIANA HIDALGO EDITORA | Brazil EDITORA GLOBO | French L'ATINOIR
Other titles from Antonio Di Benedetto:
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STORIES, 2006.
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NOVEL, 1985
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NOVEL, 1969
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NOVEL, 1964
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NOVEL, 1956.
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NOVEL, 1955
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