Amazon.com Review
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.
From Library Journal
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.
Mary Margaret Benson, Linfield Coll. Lib., McMinnville, Ore.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
