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Yesterday
- Title
- Yesterday / Juan Emar ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell ; with a foreword by Alejandro Zambra.
- Author
- Emar, Juan, 1893-1964
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-765 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- x, 107 pages : illustration, map; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "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 itself-and manages to escape. Or does he? Witness the weird machinery of Yesterday, where the Chilean master Juan Emar deploys irony, digression, and giddy repetitions to ratchet up narrative tension again and again and again, in this thrilling whirlwind of the ecstatically unexpected-all wed to the happiest marriage of any novel, ever. Born in Chile at the tail end of the nineteenth century, Juan Emar was largely overlooked during his lifetime, and lived in self-imposed exile from the literary circles of his day. A cult of Emarians, however, always persisted, and after several rediscoveries in the Spanish-speaking world, he is finally getting his international due with the English-language debut of Yesterday, deftly translated by Megan McDowell. Emar's work offers unique and delirious pleasures, and will be an epiphany to anglophone readers."--
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook ; 1526
- Uniform Title
- Ayer. English
- New Directions paperbook ; 1526.
- Alternative Title
- Ayer.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Language (note)
- Text in English translated from Spanish.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-765
- ISBN
- 9780811231572
- 0811231577
- LCCN
- 2021046010
- OCLC
- 1268544636
- Author
- Emar, Juan, 1893-1964, author.
- Title
- Yesterday / Juan Emar ; translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell ; with a foreword by Alejandro Zambra.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions paperbook ; 1526New Directions paperbook ; 1526.
- Language
- Text in English translated from Spanish.
- Added Author
- McDowell, Megan, translator.Zambra, Alejandro, 1975- writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-765