Silva, José Asunción  , 1865-1896. <br/><br/>
After-dinner conversation  : the diary of a decadent 
/ by José Asunción Silva ; translated with an introduction and notes by Kelly Washbourne 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Austin  : University of Texas Press  , 2005. 
 - ix, 260 p.  ; 22 cm. 
 - Texas Pan American literature in translation series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-260). 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780292709799 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004030275 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Silva, José Asunción , 1865-1896. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ8179.S5  / D413 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>LAS 863.64 SIL