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The Great Shadow (and other stories)

Author: Mario de Sa-Carneiro

Translator: Margaret Jull Costa   Cover illustration: Lise Weisgerber  

"Sa-Carneiro was only 26 when he committed suicide in Paris in 1916. His short stories depict madness, death, erotic jealousy and fin de siecle decadence in fragmented and luminously synaesthetic prose. Almost anticipating Kafka, he describes a scientist killed by the machinery of an invisible parallel world, and a poet, whose verses fly to the stars leaving blank pages in their wake."
Scotland on Sunday

Contents: One novella The Great Shadow, and six short stories; Myself the Other, The Strange Death of Professor Antena, Mystery, The Man of Dreams, Wings and The Fixer of Moments.

RRP: £8.99

No. of pages: 249

Publication date: 09.09.1996

ISBN numbers:
Paperback
978 1 873982 72 3
Ebook
978 1 907650 89 5

Rights:
World English language in this translation.