Archipelago Books
Brooklyn, NY
2017
1
275 pp.
Serie universitaria
9780914671725

Philosophically engaged and darkly moving, the twenty stories in Nest in the Bones span three decades from Antonio di Benedetto's wildly various career. From his youth in Argentina to his exile in Spain after enduring imprisonment and torture under the military dictatorship during the so-called "dirty war" to his return in the 1980s, Benedetto's kinetic stories move effortlessly between genres, examining civilization's subtle but violent imprint on human consciousness. A late-twentieth century master of the short form and revered by his contemporaries, Nest in the Bones is the first comprehensive volume of Benedetto's stories available in English.

Contents:                 

Nest in the bones -- Reduced -- Purity saved -- Huddled -- No -- Abandonment and passivity -- The horse in the salt flats -- The affection of dimwits -- Aballay -- Fish -- Obstinate observer -- Italo in Italy -- Tropics -- The impossibility of sleep -- Lazarillo of Hermosilla -- Orthopterans -- Hands in the night -- Premature wait -- Paternal epistle to Fabia -- Very early mornings in the cemetery.

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