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Felisberto Hernández

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born

October 20, 1902 in Montevideo, Uruguay

died

January 13, 1964

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Writer and pianist.
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.

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Books by Felisberto Hernández

Average rating: 4.28 · 219 ratings · 43 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Nadie Encendia Las Lamparas 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Las Hortensias: Y Otros Relatos 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	casa inundada, y otros cuentos 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1975	My rating:
	Las Hortensias y Otros Cuentos by Felisberto Hernández, Ana Maria Hernandez (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Lands of Memory 4.23 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Cuentos reunidos 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Caballo Perdido, El - Obras Completas Vol 2 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Primeras Invenciones - Obras Completas Vol 1 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Ciemna jadalnia, balkon i inne niezwykłe opowieści by Felisberto Hernández, Nina Pluta (translator), Tomasz Pindel (translator) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983	My rating:
	niko nije palio svetiljke 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986	My rating:

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Quotes by Felisberto Hernández

“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”
― Felisberto Hernández

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“I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and suddenly in its grip, discovers that it is not only different from the way he'd imagined but that the person suffering from it is someone else, and that this someone else is not interested in finding out what madness is like: he is simply immersed in it, or it has descended on him, and that's that.”
― Felisberto Hernández, Piano Stories

tags: madness

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“...atendía la vida como quien come distraído.”
― Felisberto Hernández

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