Cuentos HispánicosJean Franco, Gudie Lawaetz Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Camilo José Cela have been chosen for their readability and literary merit. Seven are from Spanish America, only one from Spain, an unsurprising ratio considering there are no less than nineteen Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas, and that the short story is an extremely popular form among authors there. This selection also, therefore, gives the reader an insight into the differences between the literary cultures. Printed approximately in order of difficulty, the stories are accompanied by parallel English translations and notes on the text. |
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... rain . And the sky became a gelatinous , grey substance that hov- ered a few inches above our heads . During the rest of the morning my stepmother and I sat by the balcony - rail , pleased to think that the rain was re- viving the ...
... rain . And on Monday morning they could no longer con- tain it . My stepmother and I looked once more at the gar ... rain grew like an immense tree above all the other trees . My father sat in the place where he had sat on Sunday ...
... rain I heard the song of the blind twins , and I imagined them in their home , squatting on their haunches , waiting for the rain to stop so that they could go out and sing . That day the twins from San Jerónimo would not come , I ...