- Publisher:
- PUSHKIN PRESS
- Year of publication:
- 2014
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78227-073-7
- Pages:
- 170
THE THINGS WE DON'T DO
ANDRÉS NEUMAN
Inspired by Borges and Cortazar, and echoing Vila Matas and Zarraluki, Neuman regards both life and literature's big subjects - identity, relationships, guilt and innocence, the survival of extreme circumstances, creativity - with a quizzical, philosophical eye. From US customs houses to disillusioned poets, from Borges to a man with a tricky identity problems - these often tragicomic 'stories of ideas' vacillate between the touching and the absurd, in the best tradition of Spanish storytelling.