Calvert Casey

Autorentext

Calvert Casey (1924–1969) had published both essays and short stories in Spanish during his lifetime. John H. R. Polt is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University of California at Berkeley. Ilan Stavans is Professor of Spanish and Creative Writing at Amherst College.

Ilan Stavans is Professor of Spanish and Creative Writing at Amherst College.

Klappentext

"Out of Havana arrives one of the most significant Hispanic American writers . . . Calvert Casey, nourished by the Western literary tradition, yet, obstinately, almost obsessively, 'local.' . . . With memories of Havana as a colony and of slavery, of the brothels and black witchcraft and uninterrupted sensuality in an uninterrupted dialogue with the dead, Casey . . . began to write far from Cuba out of nostalgia. It led him to return to Cuba and to submerge himself anew in the old city known rock by rock, ghost by ghost, ensuring never to be separated from her again."--Italo Calvino, written in 1966, reprinted in Quimera no. 26 (Dec. 1982)

Zusammenfassung
Calvert Casey is hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries. This collection brings Casey's powerful short stories and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience.

Inhalt

Introduction / Ilan Stavans vii
A Note on the Text xxi
Translator's Note / John H. R. Polt xxiii
The Walk 1
In San Isidro 13
Homecoming 17
Potosí 33
My Aunt Leocadia, Love, and the Lower Paleolithic 39
The Sun 51
A Little Romance 62
The Visitors 73
Love: The River Almendares, Now Full-Grown, Is Twelve Million Years Old 90
Happiness 95
The Execution 104
The Master of Life and Death 118
Polonaise Brillante 163
Goodbye . . . and Thanks for Everything 167
In Partenza 177
On the Avenue 180
Piazza Margana 187