stray horse

Author's name: Felisberto Hernandez

The adventures of a bankrupt pianist, whose sense of humor turns the bitterness of a life full of defeats, are the primary impetus that gives impetus to the stories of the Uruguayan Felisberto Hernandez. As he begins to recount the small miseries of an existence that passes between small orchestras in Montevideo's cafés and concert tours in the villages of the Rio de la Plata countryside, the page is crowded with jokes, hallucinations, and metaphors, in which objects take on life like people... But what unleashes Felisberto's fantasy are the unexpected invitations that open the doors of mysterious houses and bleak country estates for the shy pianist, home to wealthy and eccentric characters, and women full of secrets and neuroses. “A writer unlike any other, who defies all classification, yet presents himself as an unmistakable writer once the page is opened.” Italo Calvino “Flisberto belongs to a spiritual lineage... preceding Socrates, in which meanings do not seem to be subject to the rational faculties for the process of knowledge, but rather enter and leave things with the rhythm of the air in the lungs.” Julio Cortázar