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Hernandez, Felisberto / Hernaandez, Felisberto / Hernandez, Ana Maria
Acclaimed by the initiated, Felisberto Hernandez has long been considered «a writer's writer, more admired by his colleagues than known by the public at large» (Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University).
As with his predecessors in the «genre of the strange» Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka, the apparent eccentricities in Felisberto Hernandez's stories create a coherent system of allusions and...