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New York. 1989. March 1989. Available Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0345359690. Translated from the Portuguese by Eloah F. Giacomelli. 100 pages. paperback. Cover: Don Munson. keywords: Literature Translated Brazil Latin America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Here are the shortest of all of Moacyr Scliar's short stories, over two dozen gems such as ‘Root Canal Treatment, ' ‘Atlas, ' ‘A Brief History of Capitalism, ' ‘Peace and War' ‘Life and Death of a Terrorist, ' and ‘Genesis: ' Why not sample Scliar now? Open to any story and read it as you stand here in the book-store. You will have entered the magical country of one of the world's premier storytellers. And after you've read all of THE ENIGMATIC EYE, you'll be able to read the other collections, THE CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS and THE BALLAD OF THE FALSE MESSIAH. On publication of THE STRANGE NATION OF RAFAEL MENDES, Alan Ryan noted Scliar's unique character, ‘Scliar's voice is a fresh one, his artistic roots as firmly fixed in Jewish tradition and mythology as they are in Brazil's literary history. Given the breadth and depth of Brazilian artistic life, it is not at all surprising that her latest literary invention-original, fascinating, powerful, compelling and everything good that can be said about a novel-comes from the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants: ' inventory #11976.
