After-Dinner Conversation: The Diary of a Decadent

by José Asunción Silva

Book Overview

Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, Jos Asunci n Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de si cle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best work for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century writing in South America, After-Dinner Conversation is also cited as the continent's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029270979X
• ISBN13: 9780292709799
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"