Piano Stories
9 best books like Piano Stories (Felisberto Hernández): The Invention of Morel, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, Cathedral, El Llano en llamas, The Passion According to G.H., Cosmicomics, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories, The Wine-Dark Sea
| Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| ISBN | 1590170571 |
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
| Author | Machado de Assis |
| ISBN | 0850515025 |
a sick chicken and the voluptuousness of misery
we read an author and wonder 'how is it possible that this genius is not known?'... yes, only a species as cretinous as ours could ignore machado. along with carpentier and mutis, he takes the top 'what the fuck' spot.
here are three reasons...
| Author | Raymond Carver |
| ISBN | 0679723692 |
Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver’s career and “overflow with the danger,...
| Author | Juan Rulfo |
| ISBN | 9500718030 |
An outstanding collection of snippets, ever-literary and uniquely blissfully Mexican. These stories are timeless. And it is precisely that quality, that of timelessness, which best describes the setting which pervades throughout these incendiary vignettes. The best are short enough to be parables--"We're...
The Passion According to G.H.
| Author | Clarice Lispector |
| ISBN | 0816617120 |
Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal situation—a woman at home, alone—into an amphitheater...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156226006 |
Italo Calvino's extraordinary imagination and intelligence combine here in an enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. He makes his characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification...
| Author | Peter Handke |
| ISBN | 1590170199 |
Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself with an overdose of...
| Author | Ivan Bunin |
| ISBN | 0140185526 |
A much neglected literary figure, Ivan Bunin is one of Russia's major writers and ranks with Tolstoy and Chekhov at the forefront of the Russian Realists. Drawing artistic inspiration from his personal experience, these powerful, evocative stories are set in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century...
| Author | Leonardo Sciascia |
| ISBN | 0940322536 |
Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his native Sicily and its culture of secrecy and suspicion, Sciascia matched sympathy with skepticism, unflinching intellect with a street fighter's...
