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Eight Novellas Wor(l)ds of Change Latin American and Iberian Literature Kathleen March General Editor Vol. 56 PETER LANG New York (cid:121) Washington, D.C./Baltimore (cid:121) Bern Frankfurt am Main (cid:121) Berlin (cid:121) Brussels (cid:121) Vienna (cid:121) Oxford Ramón Gómez de la Serna Eight Novellas TRANSLATED BY Herlinda Charpentier Saitz and Robert L. Saitz PETER LANG New York (cid:121) Washington, D.C./Baltimore (cid:121) Bern Frankfurt am Main (cid:121) Berlin (cid:121) Brussels (cid:121) Vienna (cid:121) Oxford Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gómez de la Serna, Ramón, 1888–1963. [Prose works. English. Selections] Eight novellas / Ramón Gómez de la Serna; translated by Herlinda Charpentier Saitz, Robert L. Saitz. p. cm. — (Wor(l)ds of change; vol. 56) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Gómez de la Serna, Ramón, 1888–1963—Translations into English. I. Title: 8 novellas. II. Charpentier Saitz, Herlinda. III. Saitz, Robert L. IV. Title. V. Series: Wor(l)ds of change; v. 56. PQ6613.O4A27 863’.62—dc22 2004014116 ISBN 0-8204-7435-5 ISSN 1072-334X Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek. Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the “Deutsche Nationalbibliografie”; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.ddb.de/. The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council of Library Resources. © 2005 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York 275 Seventh Avenue, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10001 www.peterlangusa.com All rights reserved. Reprint or reproduction, even partially, in all forms such as microfilm, xerography, microfiche, microcard, and offset strictly prohibited. Printed in the United States of America DEDICATION This book is dedicated to the memory of our parents, Eduardo Charpentier Herrera and Herlinda De Castro de Charpentier and Ida Shalit Saitz and Morris Saitz This page intentionally left blank TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments.............................................................................................ix Introduction......................................................................................................1 Notes...............................................................................................................11 List of novellas translated into English in this text...........................................11 A note on the Spanish texts..............................................................................13 Se presentó el hígado/Knock, Knock, I’m Your Liver..........................................15 El hombre de la galería/The Man in the Galleria..............................................39 El gran griposo/The Flumaster.........................................................................61 Aventuras de un sinsombrerista/ The Trials and Tribulations of the Hater of Hats..........................................89 Ella+Ella–El+El/She+She–He+He....................................................................119 El cólera azul/The Blue Cholera......................................................................153 ¡Hay que matar el Morse!/Kill the Morse!.......................................................187 El dueño del átomo/The Master of the Atom...................................................227 Works Cited and Consulted..........................................................................259 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would like to thank the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Boston University Colleges of Arts and Sciences for their financial assistance in the pub- lication of this book. We would also like to thank Professors Rodolfo Cardona and the late James H. Hoddie for their encouragements and critical comments. We gratefully acknowledge the permission from Gladys Dalmau de Ghioldi to translate the eight novellas from the Spanish texts.
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