Short stories
Humus
Not translated into English
Víctor Cáceres Lara · 1952
Synopsis
A collection of stories whose details remain to be described. A biographical note says only that its author's stories deal with rural life, tragedy, machismo, fatalism and social injustice; critics place this book in the criollista current of Honduran storytelling, and neither the titles of the pieces nor their plots are known.
Context
The collection appeared in Tegucigalpa in 1952. Its stories were taken up in Tierra ardiente, published in 1966 or 1969 and reissued by the national university press in 1987: according to a stylistic study by Hans-Dieter Merl, published in Germany in 1991, Humus forms a section of it, of which he analyses thirteen of the nineteen pieces, their structure, syntax, vocabulary, figures and use of tenses. The author of the study regrets that the writer has remained little known outside his country.
Who it is for
Stories in Spanish, untranslated; they are read today in the editions of Tierra ardiente or in the complete stories published in 1995.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as representative of the Criollista movement; José Antonio Funes counts its author among the masters of the Honduran Criollista narrative.
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