Taratuta and Still Life with Pipe: Two Novellas
ABOUT
THE BOOK
These striking novellas are the witty crystallizations of José Donoso’s concerns over a lifetime of writing. In them he poses many of the questions raised by his fellow Latin American writers, Fuentes, García Marquez, and Vargas Llosa: What is truth? How does one use history in fiction? How does an artist create? Taratuta is a mystery story in which a writer tries to track a slippery Russian revolutionary in history and in life. Still Life with Pipe shows the comeuppance of an ambitious man when he meets true art and can’t escape its grasp. Donoso is the author of the classic novel The Obscene Bird of Night .
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Gregory
Rabassa
Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was a prominent American translator known for his influential work in making Latin American literature accessible to English-speaking audiences. Born to a Cuban father and an American mother in Yonkers, New York, Rabassa was immersed in a rich linguistic environment that inspired his passion for languages. He began his formal studies in Romance languages at Dartmouth College and later earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Gregory Rabassa (1922-2016) was a prominent American translator known for his influential work in making Latin American literature accessible to English-speaking audiences. Born to a Cuban father and an American mother in Yonkers, New York, Rabassa was immersed in a rich linguistic environment that inspired his passion for languages. He began his formal studies in Romance languages at Dartmouth College and later earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.