Eight novellas

273 Pages·2005·0.644 MB·English, Spanish

by  Saitz, Robert L., Charpentier Saitz, Herlinda, Gómez de la Serna, Ramón

Eight Novellas
Wor(l)ds of Change
Latin American and Iberian Literature
Kathleen March
General Editor
Vol. 56
PETER LANG
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Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Eight Novellas
TRANSLATED BY
Herlinda Charpentier Saitz
and Robert L. Saitz
PETER LANG
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gómez de la Serna, Ramón, 1888–1963.
[Prose works. English. Selections]
Eight novellas / Ramón Gómez de la Serna;
translated by Herlinda Charpentier Saitz, Robert L. Saitz.
p. cm. — (Wor(l)ds of change; vol. 56)
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Gómez de la Serna, Ramón, 1888–1963—Translations into English.
I. Title: 8 novellas. II. Charpentier Saitz, Herlinda. III. Saitz, Robert L.
IV. Title. V. Series: Wor(l)ds of change; v. 56.
PQ6613.O4A27 863’.62—dc22 2004014116
ISBN 0-8204-7435-5
ISSN 1072-334X
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DEDICATION
This book is dedicated
to the memory of our parents,
Eduardo Charpentier Herrera and
Herlinda De Castro de Charpentier and
Ida Shalit Saitz and Morris Saitz
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments.............................................................................................ix
Introduction......................................................................................................1
Notes...............................................................................................................11
List of novellas translated into English in this text...........................................11
A note on the Spanish texts..............................................................................13
Se presentó el hígado/Knock, Knock, I’m Your Liver..........................................15
El hombre de la galería/The Man in the Galleria..............................................39
El gran griposo/The Flumaster.........................................................................61
Aventuras de un sinsombrerista/
The Trials and Tribulations of the Hater of Hats..........................................89
Ella+Ella–El+El/She+She–He+He....................................................................119
El cólera azul/The Blue Cholera......................................................................153
¡Hay que matar el Morse!/Kill the Morse!.......................................................187
El dueño del átomo/The Master of the Atom...................................................227
Works Cited and Consulted..........................................................................259
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to thank the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Boston
University Colleges of Arts and Sciences for their financial assistance in the pub-
lication of this book. We would also like to thank Professors Rodolfo Cardona
and the late James H. Hoddie for their encouragements and critical comments.
We gratefully acknowledge the permission from Gladys Dalmau de Ghioldi
to translate the eight novellas from the Spanish texts.