People on the Prowl (Discoveries (Latin American Literary)) - Softcover

Collyer, Jaime

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935480730 ISBN 13: 9780935480733

Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1996

Synopsis

The imaginative and innovative short stories in this collection journey into a world unlimited by time and space. The 15 stories reveal the wit and sharp socio-political satire of the author, and cannibals, military dictators, Sigmund Freud, and the world chess champion are some of the varied and surprising characters the narration brings to life.

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Review:

"In Collyer's work, no traditional Western institution successfully explains or makes safe the universe. Church, state and commerce, the academic and the psychoanalyst couch: They all fail beneath the onslaught of a primitive unconscious that physically, psychically or literally devours them. People on the Prowl is the revenge or triumph of the primitive." The Philadelphia Inquirer"

About the Author:

<strong>Jaime Collyer</strong> is a Chilean writer and a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and the Premio Municipal de Santiago. He is a contemporary with the ""new Chilean narrative"" and is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections in his native Spanish. His stories have been published in the <em>Paris Review</em>. <br><br><strong>Lillian Lorca de Tagle</strong> was a writer, translator, journalist, and diplomat. She was honored with an International PEN Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0935480730
• ISBN 13: 9780935480733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144