Rainy Days / Dias de Lluvia : Short Stories

by Montserrat Lunati

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Rainy Days / Dias de Lluvia : Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers, Paperback by Lunati, Montserrat (EDT); Myerscough, Marilyn (TRN); Kelley, Charles (TRN), ISBN 1910572306, ISBN-13 9781910572306, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US It was quite a while ago that writers, publishers, readers and scholars stopped apologising for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro or Quim Monzo, amongst others. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great instances of achievement in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognised as having an identity of its own. This volume re-edits and expands a previous bilingual (Spanish-English) collection of cuentos in Spanish: Rainy Days/Dias de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers, which was first published in 1997. The first edition included stories by twelve writers: Pilar Cibreiro (whose brilliant short story provided the title for the anthology), Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Paloma Diaz-Mas, Adelaida Garcia Morales, Lourdes Ortiz, Laura Freixas, Marina Mayoral, Mercedes Abad, Rosa Montero, Maruja Torres, Soledad Puertolas and Maria Eugenia Salaverri. To this formidable group of women writers, the present editio

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN: 9781910572306
• Condition: Fine

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