Author: Velma Lucille HenryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A Study of the Life and More Important Works of José Asunción Silva
Author: Velma Lucille HenryA Stylistic Study of the Poetry of José Asunción Silva
Author: Betty Tyree OsiekJosé Asunción Silva
Author: Betty Tyree OsiekPublisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
José Asunción Silva
Author: Mark I. Smith-SotoTheses on Pan American Topics Prepared by Candidates for Degrees in Universities and Colleges in the United States ...
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Theses on Pan American Topics
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
José Asuncion Silva
Author: Georgiana Goddard KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Bibliographic Series
Author: Columbus Memorial LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
The Life and Works of Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera
Author: Nell WalkerAfter-Dinner Conversation
Author: José Asunción SilvaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292774990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, José Asunción Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siècle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best work for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century writing in South America, After-Dinner Conversation is also cited as the continent's first psychological novel and an outstanding example of modernista fiction and the Decadent sensibility. Semi-autobiographical and more important for style than plot, After-Dinner Conversation is the diary of a Decadent sensation-collector in exile in Paris who undertakes a quest to find his beloved Helen, a vision whom his fevered imagination sees as his salvation. Along the way, he struggles with irreconcilable urges and temptations that pull him in every direction while he endures an environment indifferent or hostile to spiritual and intellectual pursuits, as did the modernista writers themselves. Kelly Washbourne's excellent translation preserves Silva's lush prose and experimental style. In the introduction, one of the most wide-ranging in Silva criticism, Washbourne places the life and work of Silva in their literary and historical contexts, including an extended discussion of how After-Dinner Conversation fits within Spanish American modernismo and the Decadent movement. Washbourne's perceptive comments and notes also make the novel accessible to general readers, who will find the work surprisingly fresh more than a century after its composition.