La caza sutil
Julio Ramón Ribeyro

ESSAYS | 1975/2016 | 412 pages

This is a collection of Ribeyro’s texts published between 1953 and 1994, articles about Peruvian, Latin American, and French literature. There are reviews of the novels Los ríos profundos (1958) by José María Arguedas and La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña (1981) by Alfredo Bryce Echenique as well as reflections on a Lima without a novel and texts about the French writers Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant.

Ribeyro also collects all of his prologues, from the one in his very first book, Los gallinazos sin plumas (1955). At the same time, the reader can enjoy a series of texts about historical figures in the section “Proverbiales” such as the Inca Atahualpa and the Peruvian writers Ricardo Palma and Abraham Valdelomar. Among the foreigners are the Roman poet Ovid and the French writer Marquis de Sade.

RIGHTS: spanish (peru) REVUELTA EDICIONES

BY JULIO RAMÓN RIBEYRO:

La palabra del mudo
STORIES, 1972/2021
La tentación del fracaso
NON FICTION, 1992/2019
Dichos de Luder
ESSAYS, 1989/2018
Cambio de guardia
NOVEL, 1976/2017
Teatro completo
PLAYS, 2017
La caza sutil
ESSAYS, 1975/2016
Crónica de San Gabriel
NOVEL, 1960/2014
Sólo para fumadores
STORIES, 1987/2009
Prosas apátridas
ESSAYS, 1975/2007
Los geniecillos dominicales
NOVEL, 1965
Los gallinazos sin plumas
STORIES, 19555