The beggar's knife;

Rey Rosa, Rodrigo, translated by Paul Bowles

ISBN 10: 0872861643 / ISBN 13: 9780872861640

Published by City Lights, San Francisco, 1985

About this Item

95p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Short stories by the Guatemalan author, "springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North Africa, where their action occurs".

Seller Inventory # 72940

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The beggar's knife
• Publisher: City Lights, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872861643
• ISBN 13: 9780872861640
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction, Novels, Prose, Literature
  • Modern first edition
  • 1980S
  • Autobiography, Memoir
  • Hispanic American

About this title

Synopsis

From one of Guatemala’s finest young writers, these twenty-six stories—at once brutal and intensely lyrical—are peopled with sorcerers, ghosts, and assassins.

Springing from myth and beliefs indigenous to Central America and North America, where their action occurs, Rey Rosa’s tales give the sense of being dreamed. At the same time they can be read as metaphors for the terror and oppression of years of warfare.

Rodrigo Rey Rosa has based many of his writings and stories on legends and myths that are indigenous to Latin American as well as North Africa. A number of Rey Rosa's works have been translated into English, including; The Path Doubles Back (by Paul Bowles), Dust on her Tongue, "The Pelcari Project", The Beggar's Knife, The African Shore, and Severina. Along with his longer writings, he has also written a number of short stories that have been printed in college-level text books, such as "Worlds of Fiction, Second Edition" by Roberta Rubenstein and Charles R. Larson. A few of these short stories include The Proof, and The Good Cripple. Many of Rey Rosa's works have been translated into seven languages. In the early 1980s, Rey Rosa went to Morocco and became a literary protege of American expatriate writer Paul Bowles, who later translated several of Rey Rosa's works into English. When Bowles died in 1999, Rey Rosa became an executor of his literary estate.

About the Author

Rodrigo Rey Rosa has based many of his writings and stories on legends and myths that are indigenous to Latin American as well as North Africa. A number of Rey Rosa's works have been translated into English, including; The Path Doubles Back (by Paul Bowles), Dust on her Tongue, "The Pelcari Project", The Beggar's Knife, The African Shore, and Severina. Along with his longer writings, he has also written a number of short stories that have been printed in college-level text books, such as "Worlds of Fiction, Second Edition" by Roberta Rubenstein and Charles R. Larson. A few of these short stories include The Proof, and The Good Cripple. Many of Rey Rosa's works have been translated into seven languages. In the early 1980s, Rey Rosa went to Morocco and became a literary protege of American expatriate writer Paul Bowles, who later translated several of Rey Rosa's works into English. When Bowles died in 1999, Rey Rosa became an executor of his literary estate.