Felipe Alfau, Author Dalkey Archive Press $15.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-916583-98-9
Alfau (National Book Award nominee for Chromos ) continued to write poetry in his native Spanish even after immigrating to New York in 1916. This bilingual edition of his collected poems begins with the epigraph: ``I am a Romantic, and that's why /...
READ FULL REVIEW
Felipe Alfau, Author, Peter Dimock, Editor Vintage Books USA $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-73443-7
Written in the 1940s, this second and only other novel by the author of Locos is a surreal set of stories within stories about colorful Spanish exiles living in New York City. (June)no PW...
READ FULL REVIEW
Felipe Alfau, Author, Mary McCarthy, Designed by Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-916583-30-9
Out of print for half a century, this wildly surreal fable mirrors Spain in moral decay, in the years before a fascist takeover. Among the bizarre characters we meet are Garcia, a prematurely white-haired poet who becomes a fingerprint analyst; Dona
READ FULL REVIEW
Felipe Alfau, Author, Alfau Felipe, Author, Joseph Coates, Foreword by Dalkey Archive Press $19.95 (348p) ISBN 978-0-916583-52-1
A man drops dead moments after a life insurance agent pays a sales call; grieving family members conduct their lives around his immobile corpse, preserved with frown, spectacles and pen in hand. That bit of black comedy conveys the absurdist flavor...
READ FULL REVIEW
