The collected stories of Moacyr Scliar

947 Pages·1999·1.75 MB·English

by  Moacyr Scliar

The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar
title:
Jewish Latin America ; [7]
author: Scliar, Moacyr.; Giacomelli, Eloah F.
publisher: University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin: 0826319114
print isbn13: 9780826319111
ebook isbn13: 9780585250762
language: English
subject Scliar, Moacyr--Translations into English.
publication date: 1999
lcc: PQ9698.29S35 1999eb
ddc: 869.3
subject: Scliar, Moacyr--Translations into English.
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Jewish Latin America
Ilan Stavans, series editor
Moacyr Scliar: Collected Stories is the eighth volume of the
University of New Mexico Press series Jewish Latin America.
It was made possible thanks to a generous grant
from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation.
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The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli
Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press
Albuquerque
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Other titles available in the University of New Mexico Press
Jewish Latin America series:
The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas by Alberto Gerchunoff
Cláper: A Novel by Alicia Freilich
The Book of Memories by Ana María Shua
The Prophet and Other Stories by Samuel Rawet
The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner by Isaac Goldemberg
Passion, Memory, and Identity: Twentieth-Century Latin American Jewish
Women Writers, edited by Marjorie Agosín
King David's Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American
Writers, edited by Stephen A. Sadow
© 1999 by Moacyr Scliar. Translation © 1999 by Eloah F. Giacomelli.
Introduction © 1999 by Ilan Stavans.
All rights reserved.
First edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Scliar, Moacyr
The collected stories of Moacyr Scliar / translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli ;
introduction by Ilan Stavans. 1st ed.
p. cm. (Jewish Latin America ; 7)
Contents: The carnival of animals The ballad of the false messiah
The tremulous earth The dwarf in the television set The enigmatic
eye Van Gogh's Ear.
0-8263-1911-4 (cloth : alk. paper). 0-8263-1912-2
ISBN ISBN
(paper : alk. paper)
1. Scliar, MoacyrTranslations into English. I. Giacomelli, Eloah F.
1. Scliar, MoacyrTranslations into English. I. Giacomelli, Eloah F.
II. Title. III. Series.
9698.29. 54 24 1999 9-32298
PQ C A
869.3dc21 CIP
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For Ilan Stavans-
writer, friend
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CONTENTS
Introduction xv
by Ilan Stavans
The Carnival of the Animals [1968]
The Lions 3
The She-Bears 4
Rabbits 7
The Cow 10
The Dog 13
Shazam 16
The Fishing Tournament 20
We Gunmen Mustn't Feel Pity 22
Blind Man and Amigo Gedeão Alongside the Highway 24
The Pause 27
Of Cannibals 30
The Aging Marx 32
Leo 40
A House 42
The Phantom Train 46
The Day When We Killed James Cagney 47
Vegetable Kingdom 50
Navigation Chart 52
Ecology 56
Before Making the Investment 58
Communication 62
Hello! Hello! 63
Dr. Shylock 64
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The Ballad of the False Messiah [1976]
The Ballad of the False Messiah 69
Don't Release the Cataracts 76
New Year, New Life 79
The Scalp 82
The Spider 86
Agenda of Executive Jorge T. Flacks for Judgment Day 88
Eating Paper 90
The Evidence 92
The Offerings of Dalila Store 100
The Short-Story Writers 104
The Tremulous Earth [1977]
Quick, Quick 151
The Price of the Living Steer 163
Youth Is an Eternal Treasure 165
Grand Prize 167
Friends 171
It's Time to Fall 173
The Thief 178
Requiem 180
Images 183
The Picnic 185
Rest in Peace 190
Festive Dawn 194
Skinny Enough to Become a Kite 196
Profile of the Hen of the Golden Eggs as She Lay Dying 199
Capital Punishment 206
The Last One 209
The Riddle 210
The Dream 211