Piano Stories by Felisberto Hernández5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Some of his most famous stories are: "The Balcony," "My First Concert," and "Daisy Dolls. His fiction often attempts to exploit the secret vitality contained in inanimate objects. He is considered to be the forefather of fabulism, predating writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Italo Calvino and Julio Cortázar, who all note Hernández as a major influence. ![]() He often used the events surrounding him as fodder for his fiction. What is interesting in Hernández’s fiction is the magic by-product of his anonymous first-person tales whose obsessive and deranged narrators have knocked down the wall between their minds and the empirical world and injected their obsessions into everyday life. Inhabited by rich, eccentric characters and full of strange and surprising landscapes, this collection of short stories deeply influenced a generation of magical realists.If I hadnt read the stories of Felisberto Hernandez in 1950, I would not be the writer I am today. ![]() He was a talented self-taught pianist who earned a living playing in the silent-screen theaters and cafés of Uruguay. Felisberto Hernández, Julio Cortázar (Afterword) 4.19. His father was from Tenerife (Canary Island). Hernández was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. ![]()
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