{"id":1316,"date":"2024-02-28T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T17:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/?page_id=1316"},"modified":"2024-05-31T03:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T03:22:50","slug":"coldtales_book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/books\/coldtales_book\/","title":{"rendered":"coldtales_book"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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THE EXPANDED EDITION OF COLD TALES <\/i>
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS NEW EDITION, CLICK <\/strong>HERE<\/span><\/a>.
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For more information about the 1988 Eridanos Press edition, see below. <\/span><\/p>

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“I was introduced to the work of Virgilio Pi\u00f1era when I read Cold Tales<\/em>, his collection of absurdist, surrealist, yet viscerally realistic short stories. No one\u2019s stories are quite like Pi\u00f1era\u2019s. If I tossed out names like Borges, Ionescu, or Kafka, you might get some sense of his work \u2014 and it\u2019s certainly of the same caliber, worthy of being considered as among the great writers of the 20th century \u2014 but you would likely make the mistake of thinking you knew it because you\u2019d read theirs, and Pi\u00f1era absolutely deserves to be read on his own.” \u2013 Thomas Frick<\/p>

\u201cTranslator Mark Schafer\u2026 has captured Pi\u00f1era\u2019s deranged formalism with considerable grace\u2026.\u201d – Dan Bellm<\/p>

\u201cIt could not have been easy to translate Pi\u00f1era, but Mark Schafer\u2019s English versions seem to catch the look and sound, the feel<\/em> of this unique and demanding writer, preserving his black humor, his irony, his subtlety, and all of his intensity.\u201d – Alan Ryan<\/p>

\u201cThe translation by Mark Schafer, as one comes to expect from the translators chosen by Eridanos, is impeccable.\u201d – Alberto Manguel<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE EXPANDED EDITION OF COLD TALES IS ON ITS WAY! FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS NEW EDITION, CLICK HERE. For more information about the 1988 Eridanos Press edition, see below. For a detailed history of the book and its author, click on the “MORE ABOUT THIS BOOK” button under the cover image. More about this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"parent":445,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1316","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1316\/revisions\/2445"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beforesaying.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}