by Luis Sepúlveda · METAILIE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782864246701
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«La Lampe d'Aladino et autres histoires pour vaincre l'oubli» is a short story collection by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Métailié in paperback, in French.
Aladino Garib, a small Palestinian merchant, arrives in Puerto Edén, on the Strait of Magellan. From his lamp spring twelve tales that rescue from oblivion characters such as a dentist and his friend the jaguar hunter, a Greek woman from Alexandria, a sailor from Hamburg, and a mirror maker in a hotel swallowed by the jungle.
Translation from Spanish to French by Bertille Hausberg. Original title: «La lámpara de Aladino y otros cuentos para vencer al olvido».
For readers of short fiction seeking adventure stories with humor and a Latin American backdrop.
Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.
