Acclaimed by the initiated, Felisberto Hernandez has long been considered "a writer's writer, more admired by his colleagues than known by the public at large" (Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale University). As with his predecessors in the "genre of the strange" Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe and Franz Kafka, the apparent eccentricities in Felisberto Hernandez's stories create a coherent system of allusions and correspondences, a system that reaches its summit in masterpieces such as "Las Hortensias" and "La casa inundada". As Hoffmann, who preceded him, and Cortazar, who followed, Felisberto turned away from the literary trends of his times and departed on his own journey, undertaking the task of redefining the human being and replacing the accepted notion of material reality with what he called "the mystery": small and deep daily realities that fall outside an ever narrowing focus on the homogenous and utilitarian. A trained musician and composer,...

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