Lands of Memory presents a half-dozen wonderful works by Felisberto
Hernández, a writer like no other, Italo Calvino declared, like no
European or Latin American. He is an 'irregular, ' who eludes all
classifications and labellings--yet he is unmistakable on any page to
which one might randomly open one of his books.
Named a Guardian Best Book of the Year by Alfred Brendel and a TLS Best
Book of the Year by Michael Hofmann (who calls Felisberto a loopier,
vegetarian Kafka, inhabiting his mazy personal baroque), Lands of
Memory collects four astonishing stories and the two dreamlike novellas
Around the Time of Clemente Colling and Lands of Memory.