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“juan emar”

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  • Ten

    by Juan Emar ...
    Translated by Megan McDowell ...
    An astonishing collection of short stories by one of the most daring prose experimentalists of the 20th centuryA taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemón, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts in his court—which is itself contained in a demonic gemstone the size of a fist. And deep ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Yesterday

    by Juan Emar ...
    Translated by Megan McDowell ...
    For the first time in English, a mind-bending, surreal masterpiece by “the forerunner of them all” (Pablo Neruda)In the city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a man, while urinating, goes bungee jumping through time ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Stone Raft

    by José Saramago ...
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  • Complete Stories

    by Clarice Lispector ...
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  • The Lost Steps

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
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  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt

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