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Hailed as a literary relative of Kafka and Poe by his Italian and Cuban contemporaries, Calvert Casey and his enthralling work have until now remained eclipsed in the United States. This collection brings all of Casey’s powerful short stories and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Exploring the human condition through poetically unique yet torturous views of the mind, Casey was a renegade arti...

Born in the United States, Calvert Casey was raised in Cuba and spent most of his life there and in Europe. Spanish was his chosen language. This collection brings all of Casey's powerful short stories--mostly set in Havana--and a fragment of an unfinished novel to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Casey was a renegade artist whose work presents reality as a smoke screen behind which Truth is hidden.