Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection brings all of Casey's powerful short stories and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Exploring the human condition through poetically unique yet torturous views of the mind, Casey was a renegade artist whose work perceives reality as a smoke screen behind which Truth is hidden. He ...
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Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection brings all of Casey's powerful short stories and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Exploring the human condition through poetically unique yet torturous views of the mind, Casey was a renegade artist whose work perceives reality as a smoke screen behind which Truth is hidden. He intended his fiction to disturb and subvert standard, plot-driven views of life. Born in the United States, Casey was raised in Cuba and spent most of his life there and in Europe. He chose Spanish as his primary artistic tongue. A member of the intelligentsia surrounding Castro in the early years of the revolution, he was eventually exiled-and in 1969 committed suicide in Rome at the age of forty-five. Although most of his luminous stories are set in Havana, his is not a touristy, picturesque landscape but an often strange and nightmarish theater of human passions, inhabited by figures-silhouettes, really-that live on the edge of normality. This volume, which showcases Casey's mastery of the skill of indirect and gradual revelation, is the most complete to appear in any language and includes a biographical and critical introduction written by Ilan Stavans, the noted novelist and scholar of Hispanic culture. Readers interested in the art of fiction and in the complexities of the human psyche will find Casey's work irresistible.
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Trade Paperback. Illustrated taupe wrappers. Glued binding. 193 pages, Introduction by Ilan Stavans. 1st thus paperback edition, 1st printing. A book in the Series Latin American in Translation, sponsored by the Duke-University of North Carolina Joint Program in Latin American Studies. CONDITION: FINE, binding square and tight, pages crisp and unmarked. CONTENT: 17 original stories by Calvert Casey, hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries. Born in the US, Casey was raised in Cuba, Casey's stories are set in Havana and explore the often strange and nightmarish theater of human passions, inhabited by figures that live on the edge of normality. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.
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