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Beatle dreams and other stories / by Guillermo Samperio ; translated by Russell M. Cluff & L. Howard Quackenbush

Author
Samperio, Guillermo
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. 1990. English
Published
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Latin American Literary Review Press, 1994.
Physical Description
169 pages ; 22 cm.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: She Lived in a Story -- Beatle Dreams -- Free Time -- Story with a Jacaranda -- Bluesy Morning -- Dr. Mane -- When Touch Becomes Word -- Miss Green -- Midday's Unpretentious Woman -- Complicated Woman of the Afternoon -- Behind the Door -- Yurecuaro -- Anything Goes -- Gertrudis -- Outside the Ring -- In Time's Cramped Apartment -- Biological Data -- The Keeper of the Keys -- The Keeper of the Shadows -- Lenin and Soccer -- Wind-up -- The Shadows -- Georgina, Here and Now -- A Night for News -- A Letter from Witold the Pirate -- Mystical Serpents -- Fire Wedding -- Certain Deaths -- Fatal Station -- I Love You -- Worms -- The Pill Bug -- Red High-Heeled Shoes for a Beautiful Woman -- Black High-Heeled Shoes for the Beautiful Woman with the Red High-Heeled Shoes -- Yellow High-Heeled Shoes -- White High-Heeled Shoes -- Gray High-Heeled Shoes.
Summary
"In this playful and sometimes political collection of short stories, Guillermo Samperio continuously toys with the prejudices and fashionable fetishes of his contemporaries, as exemplified in his "poetic portraits" of women. Much of his seemingly serious prose is tongue-in-cheek humor, as in Yurecaro, an initiation story that combines the poetic, the erotic, the rural and the urban, laced with a youthful, picaresque humor." "Humor, fantasy and social irony characterize the astonishing work of Mexican writer Guillermo Samperio, who has produced more than 170 stories in a dozen volumes. Samperio sees literature as an aggression against established values, in politics and in art. An extraordinary observer of human nature, he plays with the relationship between author, reader and text, producing unexpected and imaginative results." --Book Jacket.
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ISBN
0935480609
Note
Originally published: Antología personal, 1971-1990. Xalapa, México : Universidad Veracruzana, 1990.
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