Prosas apátridas
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
ESSAYS | 1975/2007 | 144 pages
Somewhere between aphorism, philosophical essay, and diary, Prosas apátridas is a work of singular strength. Each annotation is a luscious bite of wisdom about diverse topics like literature, memory and forgetting, age and childhood, or love and sex.
Julio Ramón Ribeyro explores new ways of representing a reality that is perceived as irrevocably fragmented. His elegant and precise style, along with his irony and bitter lucidity, tie these pages together as they portray the condition of the modern man with depth.
Prosas apátridas contains, in Ribeyro’s own words, texts “without a literary homeland…no genre wanted to claim them…That’s when I thought of bringing them together and gifting them a common space, where they could feel like they had company and free themselves of the weight of solitude.” Readers have in their hands the spiritual testimony of one of the great Spanish-language authors of the 20th century.
RIGHTS: spanish SEIX BARRAL | italian LA NUOVA FRONTIERA | french FINITUDE
“Julio Ramón Ribeyro must be read—he is a writer who qualifies the beauty of his prose with situations that can be grotesque, sad, bombastic, tragicomic, secondary, and he therefore gives the insignificant a special importance. That is the significance of his work, and in particular of Prosas apátridas: it turns coincidences or circumstances into significant moments about which something can be said.”
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