Bøger af Juan Emar

A taxidermied parrot, insulted by a stodgy uncle, comes violently alive and batters the poor fool to death with its beak. A terrible tyrant, Zar Palemón, presides over grotesque ritualized sex acts in his court-which is itself contained in a demonic gemstone the size of a fist. And deep in the Andes, in a hidden cave, an unremarkable house cat waits to trap its hapless victim with a Gorgon's gaze and engage him in a staring contest on which the fate of the cosmos just might depend.Such are a few of the bizarre adventures found within Juan Emar's mind-bending collection of short stories, Ten. Allegory? Parody? Horror? Surrealism? Yes to all, and none of the above: where lesser writers mark their end-point, the unclassifiable Juan Emar jumps off, straight into the deep end. Life is far from still in Emar's world, where statues come alive, gaseous vampires stalk, and our hopes and fears materialize in a web of shocking interconnections unified by twisted logic and crystalline prose.Now, Ten is available in English for the first time, deftly translated by Megan McDowell and with an introduction by César Aira, who writes: "Emar has neither precedents nor equals; his echoes and affinities-Lautréamont, Macedonio Fernández, Gombrowicz-flow from his readers' own inclinations." Byzantine and vivid, intricate and bizarre, this quiver of shorts by Chile's most idiosyncratic mad genius of literature will leave readers astounded for decades to come.

"Juan Emar, der var forud for sin tid, skrev uden tvivl for fremtidens læsere, og det er lige så arrogant, som det er spændende at antage, at fremtidens læsere er os" Alejandro Zambra"Denne forløberen for dem alle testamenterede i sit fredfyldte delirium en levende verden til os, befolket af den uvirkelighed som altid er uadskillelig fra den mest varige virkelighed"Pablo Neruda I går blev en mand guillotineret for at prædike ’kærlighedens forhjernelse’ (den erotiske fornøjelse i tanken); i zoologisk have fortærede strudsen en løve; i et atelier måtte en kunstmaler forsvare beslutningen om at dedikere sig udelukkende til nuancer af grøn; ved et urinal foretog den tissende en tidsrejse … Drag med en mand og hans hustru (og hér er tale om et af litteraturhistoriens lykkeligste ægteskaber) på odyssé gennem surreelle tableauer i byen San Agustín de Tango, en intens og bizar hvirvelvind fra dagen i går.Juan Emar er pseudonym for den chilenske forfatter, maler og kunstkritiker Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi (1893-1964). Juan Emar delte sit liv mellem Santiago og Paris; i Paris blev han knyttet til datidens surrealistiske grupper, og det var her, han antog navnet Juan Emar for dets lydlige forbindelse til den franske sætning "J'en ai marre" (jeg har fået nok/jeg er røvtræt).

Over the course of a single day - the day before today - the hero of this novel and his adored wife embark on a journey through the absurd and the surreal, encountering a choir of monkeys and a carnivorous ostrich, travelling from the studio of an artist obsessed with the colour green to the waistcoat pocket of a pot-bellied man.