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After-dinner conversation : the diary of a decadent / by José Asunción Silva ; translated with an introduction and notes by Kelly Washbourne

By:

Silva, José Asunción, , 1865-1896

Contributor(s):

Washbourne, Kelly

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Texas Pan American literature in translation seriesPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press , 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 260 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780292709799

Uniform titles:

De sobremesa . English

Subject(s):

Silva, José Asunción , 1865-1896

DDC classification:

LAS 863.64 SIL

LOC classification:

PQ8179.S5 D413 2005

Summary: Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author' suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, After-Dinner Conversation ( De sobremesa ) is perhaps the single best work for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century writing in South America. It is the diary of a Decadent sensation-collector in exile in Paris who undertakes a quest to find his beloved Helen, a vision whom his fevered imagination sees as his salvation. Along the way, he struggles with irreconcilable urges and temptations that pull him in every direction while he endures an environment indifferent or hostile to spiritual and intellectual pursuits, as did the modernista writers themselves.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-260).

Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author' suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, After-Dinner Conversation ( De sobremesa ) is perhaps the single best work for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century writing in South America. It is the diary of a Decadent sensation-collector in exile in Paris who undertakes a quest to find his beloved Helen, a vision whom his fevered imagination sees as his salvation. Along the way, he struggles with irreconcilable urges and temptations that pull him in every direction while he endures an environment indifferent or hostile to spiritual and intellectual pursuits, as did the modernista writers themselves.

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