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Yesterday by Juan Emar, Megan McDowell, Alejandro Zambra is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**For the first time in English, a mind-bending, surreal masterpiece by “the forerunner of them all” (Pablo Neruda)**In the city of San Agustín de Tango, the banal is hard to tell from the bizarre. In a single day, a man is guillotined for preaching the intellectual pleasures of sex; an ostrich in a zoo, reversing roles, devours a lion; and a man, while urinating, goes bungee jumping through time itself—and manages to escape. Or does he? Witness the weird machinery of *Yesterday* , where the Chilean master Juan Emar deploys irony, digression, and giddy repetitions to ratchet up narrative tension again and again and again, in this thrilling whirlwind of the ecstatically unexpected—all wed to the happiest marriage of any novel, ever. Born in Chile at the tail end of the nineteenth century, Juan Emar was largely overlooked during his lifetime, and lived in self-imposed exile from the literary circles of his day. A cult of Emarians, however, always persisted, and after several rediscoveries in the Spanish-speaking world, he is finally getting his international due with the English-language debut of *Yesterday* , deftly translated by Megan McDowell. Emar’s work offers unique and delirio

Who reads Yesterday?

Author

Juan Emar, Megan McDowell, Alejandro Zambra

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811231589

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Fiction

Rating

3.41 / 5 (484 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14