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Yesterday (Paperback)
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Yesterday (Paperback)
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In the city of San Agustin 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.
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