Description
Two Crocodiles highlights two literary masters from opposite ends of the world -- Russia's Fyodor Dostoevsky and Uruguay's Felisberto Hernández. Dostoevsky's crocodile, cruelly displayed in a traveling sideshow, gobbles whole a pretentious high-ranking civil servant. But the functionary survives unscathed and seizes his new unique platform to expound to the fascinated public. Dostoevsky's Crocodile is a matchless, hilarious satire.
Hernández's Crocodile, on the other hand, while also terribly funny, is a heartbreaker. A pianist struggling to make ends meet as a salesman finds success when he begins to weep before clients and audience alike, but then he can't stop the crocodile tears.
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Felisberto Hernandez
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 07/16/2013
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.40w x 0.25d
ISBN13: 9780811220989
ISBN10: 0811220982
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary