After-Dinner Conversation: The Diary of a Decadent

(Part of the Latin American and Latino Art and Culture Series and Texas Pan American Literature in Translation Series)

by José Asunción Silva

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Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jos Asunci n Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de si cle 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:029270979X

ISBN13:9780292709799

Release Date:November 2005

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:270 Pages

Weight:0.86 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Caribbean & Latin American Classics Fiction Foreign Language Fiction Literature & Fiction Poetry Spanish World Literature

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After-Dinner Conversation: The Diary of a Decadent

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