Histoires étranges et fantastiques d'Amérique latine
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Overview:
- Title: Histoires étranges et fantastiques d'Amérique latine
- Author: Claude Couffon
- Year: 1998
- ISBN-10: 286424246X
- Publisher: Métailié
- Price: F80.00
- Pages: 506
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: Le Sud
- Notes:
- Unknown printing rank; © Métailié, 1989; DL = July 1997.
- As with all French books, publication date is based upon printing date.
- Cover art consists of a faded detail of Henri Rousseau's painting Le Rêve (The Dream), 1910. The cover design is only credited to "Aparicio & Hoch" on bc, no mention of the original artist.
- Stories translated by diverse hands.
- Each story or group of stories by the same author is preceded by a bio-bibliographical presentation by Claude Couffon.
- This anthology is divided into two unequal parts : first come the Spanish-speaking authors of Latin America, then the Brazilian, Portuguese-speaking ones (as from p. 441, last four stories).
- Miguel Ángel Asturias's name is printed as "Miguel Angel Asturias" throughout the book. Likewise, Óscar Cerruto is printed as "Oscar Cerruto".
