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El pueblo de los tontos: Humor tradicional judío
Entre los relatos, las anécdotas y los chistes de tontos de todos los pueblos, aquí están los encantadores disparates de los tontos más sabios del mundo, los judíos de Jélem.
Ingenuos, delirantes, al borde de la genialidad, los personajes de estas historias de la tradición judía son algo más peligroso y divertido que los tontos comunes: son tontos con iniciativa, capaces de incendiar su pueblo por atrapar un gato.
Ana María Shua, la autora de esta deliciosa recopilación, ha sabido transcribir todo el humor y la sutileza de los cuentos tradicionales más divertidos de la Tierra.
Ingenuos, delirantes, al borde de la genialidad, los personajes de estas historias de la tradición judía son algo más peligroso y divertido que los tontos comunes: son tontos con iniciativa, capaces de incendiar su pueblo por atrapar un gato.
Ana María Shua, la autora de esta deliciosa recopilación, ha sabido transcribir todo el humor y la sutileza de los cuentos tradicionales más divertidos de la Tierra.
130 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1995
About the author
Ana María Shua
250 books114 followersAna María Shua has earned a prominent place in contemporary Argentine fiction with the publication of many books in nearly every genre: novels, short stories, short short stories, poetry, children's fiction, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays.
Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Islandic, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literary prizes in 1967.
She went on to study at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and worked as an advertising copywriter and journalist during the early stages of her career. Since then, she has received numerous national and international awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel El libro de los recuerdos(The Book of Memories, 1994).
Her other novels include Soy Paciente (Patient, 1980), Los amores de Laurita (Laurita's Loves,1984), which was made into a movie, La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997). and El peso de la tentación (The Weight of Temptation, 2007).
Her first four microfiction books have been published in Madrid in one volume: Cazadores de Letras, (Letter’s Hunters, 2009). Her complete short stories have been published as Que tengas una vida interesante (Buenos Aires, 2009). Her last microfiction book is Fenómenos de circo in 2011.
She published Contra el tiempo, short-stories, in 2013
Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Islandic, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literary prizes in 1967.
She went on to study at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and worked as an advertising copywriter and journalist during the early stages of her career. Since then, she has received numerous national and international awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel El libro de los recuerdos(The Book of Memories, 1994).
Her other novels include Soy Paciente (Patient, 1980), Los amores de Laurita (Laurita's Loves,1984), which was made into a movie, La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997). and El peso de la tentación (The Weight of Temptation, 2007).
Her first four microfiction books have been published in Madrid in one volume: Cazadores de Letras, (Letter’s Hunters, 2009). Her complete short stories have been published as Que tengas una vida interesante (Buenos Aires, 2009). Her last microfiction book is Fenómenos de circo in 2011.
She published Contra el tiempo, short-stories, in 2013
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