Short stories
Gente solitaria
Not translated into English
Poli Délano · 1960
Synopsis
Seven short stories, according to the author's website: “Casimir”, “Sermón en el bus”, “El espejo”, “Final”, “El boleto de lotería”, “Al caer la noche” and “La frontera”. Memoria Chilena already notes the themes that will return throughout the work: solitude, thwarted love and life on the margins, on the outskirts of cities. The book was written in China, where its author was then working as a translator.
Context
The collection appeared in Santiago from Ediciones Mazorca in 1960, in a volume of sixty-three pages, and the following year received the municipal prize of Santiago. The first book of its author, it precedes Amaneció nublado and Cero a la izquierda, which Memoria Chilena links to the generation of 1960, attentive to urban life and social reality. Its author would go on to produce a body of work made largely of short stories, crowned by a second municipal prize in 1969 and by the Casa de las Américas prize in 1973.
Who it is for
Seven short stories about the loneliness of cities, to be read separately; no French or English translation.
Prizes and reception
Awarded a prize the very next year by the City of Santiago, at the threshold of a body of work devoted above all to the short story.
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