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The One-Handed Pianist was published to acclaim in the early 1990s, with the two-part Spanish edition winning the Latino Literature Prize in 1989 and the Gamma Literature Prize in 1992. Its tales look at what it means to be Jewish in the Hispanic worlda world in which spirituality is often exercised outside the realm of orthodoxy. Stavans constructs fables that raise questions about ethnicity and community; even Stavans person raises questions about ethnicity and community: what does it mean that a Jew of Eastern European lineage can call himself Latino and speak for that group?
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NONFICTION Bandido: Oscar "Zeta" Acosta and the Chicano Experience The Hispanic Condition: Reflections of Culture and Identity in America Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage
BOOKS EDITED Tropical Synagogues: Short Stories by Jewish Latin American Writers Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories (coedited with Harold Augenbraum)
TRANSLATION Sentimental Songs by Felipe Alfau
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The One-Handed Pianist And Other Stories
Ilan Stavans
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS Albuquerque
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These stories first appeared in Spanish in two volumes: Talia y el cielo (1979; rev. 1989) and La pianista manca (1992). Translations were sponsored by a generous grant from the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation. "A Heaven Without Crows" was first published in English in Michigan Quarterly Review and CrossCurrents; "The Invention of Memory" in Alaska Quarterly Review; "The Death of Yankos'' in Calypso andTropical Synagoges: Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers (Holmes & Meier, 1994); "The One-Handed Pianist" in TriQuarterly; segments of "Talia in Heaven'' in Southwest Review and The Literary Review: "The Spot" in Confrontations; "House Repossessed" in Massachusetts Review and Under the Pomegranate Tree. Ray (Gonzalez, ed. (Pocket Books, 1996); "Three Nightmares" in The Literary Review; and "Lost in Translation" in Massachusetts Review and Currents from the Dancing River, Ray Gonzalez., ed. (Harcourt Brace, 1994).
Translated by Dick Gerdes, Harry Morales, Amy Prince, Alison Stavchansky, David Unger, and the Author.
Copyright 1996 by Ilan Stavans. All rights reserved. First edition
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stavans, Ilan. [Short stories. English. Selections] The one-handed pianist and other stories / Ilan Stavans.1st ed. p. cm. Stories first appeared in Spanish in two volumes, Talia y el cielo and La pianista manca. ISBN o-8263-1645-X 1. Stavans, IlanTranslations into English. 1. Title. PQ70709.2.S78A27 1996 863dc20 95-4354 CIP
Designed by Linda Mae Tratechaud
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Contents
A Heaven Without Crows
1
The Invention of Memory
9
The Death of Yankos
47
The One-Handed Pianist
55
Talia in Heaven
61
The Spot
157
House Repossessed
161
Three Nightmares
169
Epilogue: Lost in Translation
181
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EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. AMBROSE BIERCE, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
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A Heaven Without Crows
21, V, 1924 Kierling Sanatorium Klosterneuberg
DEAR MAX,*
Thanks for having come ten days ago to visit this old invalid who's about to say goodbye. Just a few miles from Vienna and already I feel I'm in the Other World. I have tuberculosis in the larynx, I know, though the doctors persist in offering other diagnoses, incredible beyond belief. Why won't anyone dare to talk honestly to a dying man? Death is the issue and still they're vague, evasive. Dr. Tschiassny tells me that my throat is looking much better but I don't believe him; I can't even swallow solid food any more, so I live on lemonade, beer, wine, and water. They apply ice packs to my throat on a regular basis. I've also been given medicated lozenges and Demropon which, till now, has been ineffective in treating my cough.
* I feel great anguish when I consider Franz Kafka's request that his friend Max Brod burn his writings. What could have motivated the writer to insist that his artistic production be destroyed? Perhaps his profound antinomic nature, though that only seems to me half the truth. I have searched in vain through the back alleys of his writings, as well as by reading biographies. I offer, therefore, my own explanation, at once sensible and farfetched, contained in this letter never sent to Brod, composed two weeks before the Czech writer died.
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I admit that if it weren't for Dr. Klopstock from Budapest"the madman," as you refer to himwho I met that frigid February in 1921, I wouldn't even be writing to you now. He takes good care of me, though at times I suspect he's at bottom a hypocrite. He has promised to inject me with sedatives when the pain becomes unbearable; we'll see what happens. Yes, I know there's a vial of camphor ready for me in the medicine chest. Dora Diamant, my dear Dora, trusts him implicitly and that pleases me. They take turns sitting at my side when I can't stay alone. I'm extremely grateful, though I tell them there's no reason to prolong the agony. Guess what? Yesterday late at night an owl perched right outside my window. The bird of death!
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