A vision of such startling beauty that it flares up like an old-fashioned phosphorous match and illuminates our whole lives.-Francine Prose Excellent miraculously alive wonderful.-Michael Pye"Ħ. Poetry that transforms the ordinary into the uncanny.ĥ. If I hadn't read the stories of Felisberto Hernandez in 1950, I wouldn't be the writer I am today.-Gabriel Garcia MarquezĤ. He married four times, published seven books, and died, impoverished, in 1964.ġ. He later toured the small concert halls of Uruguay and Argentina. "īorn in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1902, Felisberto Hernandez was a talented pianist, playing in the silent-screen movie theaters when he was twelve years old. Piano Stories contains classic tales such as The Daisy Dolls, The Usher, and The Flooded House. 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. Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernandez, a writer like no other, as Italo Calvino declares in his introduction: like no European or Latin American. From the writer adored by the likes of Garcia Marquez, Calvino, and Francine Prose comes a collection of Hernandez's classic tales"
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