Cinderella's sisters surgically modify their feet to win the prince's love. A werewolf gathers up enough courage to visit a dentist. A medium trying to reach the afterworld gets a recorded message. A fox and a badger compete to out-fool each other. Whether writing of insomnia from a mosquito's point of view or showing us what happens after the princess kisses the frog, Ana María Shua, in these fleet and incandescent stories, is nothing if not pithy, except, of course, wildly entertaining. Some as short as a sentence, these microfictions have been selected and translated from four different books. Flashes of insight, cracks of wit, twists of logic, and quirks of language: these are fictions in the distinguished Argentinean tradition of Borges and Cortázar and Denevi, as powerful as they are brief.
¿En Resumen/Reseñas?
Responsibility: Ana María Shua ; translated by Steven J. Stewart.
Obra original
Título: Short stories. Selections Autor/a: Ana María Shua Editorial: Bison Books Ciudad: Nebraska Año de publicación: 2009 Género literario: Translations Traducido en los años: 2009, 2019, 2015, 2013, 2010, 2018, 2004, 1972, 2006, 2003, 2005, 2007