People on the Prowl: Short Stories (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr)) [Paperback]

Jaime Collyer (Author), Lillian Tagle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0935480730 | ISBN-13: 978-0935480733

stories, Chile, tr by Lillian Lorca de Tagle

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Chilean author Jaime Collyer is a trained psychologist, a background which complements his supreme ability to tell an entertaining and complex story. Add to these a dry irony and a finely honed sense of the absurd, and you're getting close to the joy of reading one of these stories, translated by Lillian Lorca de Tagle.

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This collection of short stories by Chilean Collyer were first published in Spanish as Gente al acecho (Planeta, 1992). The 15 stories are from a world of Collyer's imaginative creation, without limits of time or space. We travel from the Danube to the Amazon and from the French Revolution to a modern symposium on ethnology-without being surprised at doing so. Collyer's political and social satire humorously attack Freud, religion, death, cannibals, and chess. Collyer has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, and the first story, "Our Neighbor's Last Days," is a tribute to Borges's "The Aleph." The author's novels include Los a?os perdidos (Almarbu, 1986) and El infiltrado (Mondadori, 1989). For comprehensive Latin American literature collections.
Mary Margaret Benson, Linfield Coll. Lib., McMinnville, Ore.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 156 pages
• Publisher: Latin Amer Literary Review Pr (June 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935480730
• ISBN-13: 978-0935480733
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,216,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The first real writer after Pinochet, August 29, 1999

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This review is from: People on the Prowl: Short Stories (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr)) (Paperback)

People on the prowl, first published in Chile as Gente al acecho, is probably the best book among a great number of works by the "Nuevos narradores chilenos". They had in common to publish near after democracy's return, but Collyer was the first who could write over these situations, giving us a book with no bitterness, a great amount of irony and humour.

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT NEW WRITER, April 30, 2003

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This review is from: People on the Prowl: Short Stories (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr)) (Paperback)

Jaime Collyer is one of the best new hispanic writers. This collection of short stories is extremely recommended.