A question of belonging / Hebe Uhart ; translated from the Spanish by Anna Vilner ; introduced by Mariana Enríquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uhart, Hebe, author.

Contributor:

Vilner, Anna, translator.

Enriquez, Mariana, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Fiction.

Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Argentine literature.

Genre:

short stories.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

xx, 217 pages : illustration ; 17 cm

Edition:

First Archipelago Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2024.

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

"Uhart reinvigorates our desire to connect with other people, to love the world, to laugh in the face of bad intentions, and to look again, more closely: from lapwings, road-side pedicures, and the overheard conversations of nurses and their patients, to Goethe and the work of the Bolivian director Jorge Sanjinés. "It was a year of great discovery for me, learning about these people and their homes," Hebe Uhart writes in the opening story of A Question of Belonging, a collection of texts that traverse Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Spain, and beyond. Discoveries sprout and flower throughout Uhart's oeuvre, but nowhere more so than in her crónicas, Uhart's preferred method of storytelling by the end of her life. For Uhart, the crónica meant going outside, meeting others. It also allowed the mingling of precise, factual reportage and the slanted, symbolic narrative power of literature" -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

A memory from my personal life

A trip to La Paz

The preparatory school

Good manners

Animals

Inheritance

Two ladies and their place

My time on the divan

Irazusta

Kilometer eighty-nine

I didn't know

Fabricio

This is a humane country

Around the corner

The land of Formosa

Río is a state of mind

The jungles of Lima

Not meant to be

Off to Mexico

A question of belonging

Corrientes casts a spell

New Year's in Almagro

The North American professor

Inside the circus

A suit with an extra pair of pants

My bed away from home.

ISBN:

9781953861801

1953861806

OCLC:

1388401722