- Felisberto Hernández
Felisberto Hernandez (
October 20 ,1902 -January 13 ,1964 ) was anUruguayan writer.Background
Hernández was was born in
Montevideo ,Uruguay . He was a talented self-taught pianist who earned a living playing in the silent-screen theaters and cafés of Uruguay.hort stories
He is one of the greatest yet least known Latin American short-story writers.
What is interesting in Hernández’s fiction is the magic by-product of his anonymous first-person tales whose obsessive and deranged narrators have knocked down the wall between their minds and the empirical world and injected their obsessions into everyday life. He often used the events surrounding him as fodder for his fiction.
He is considered to be the forefather of
fabulism , predating writers such asGabriel García Márquez ,Italo Calvino andJulio Cortázar , who all note Hernández as a major influence.His fiction often attempts to exploit the secret vitality contained in
inanimate object s.Some of his most famous stories are: "The Balcony"," "
My First Concert "," and "Daisy Dolls ".elected works translated into English
* "Piano Stories", translated by Luis Harss, Marsilio Publishers, 1993
* "Lands of Memory", translated by Esther Allen, New Directions Press, 2002External links
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9343861?query=doll&ct=eb Felisberto Hernandez]
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