The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays.
Cigarettes.
The Conversions.
The Human Country: New and Collected Stories.
The Journalist.
My Life in CIA.
Singular Pleasures.
The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium.
Tlooth.
20 Lines a Day.
JOSEPH MCELROY,
Night Soul and Other Stories.
THOMAS MCGONIGLE,
Going to Patchogue.
ROBERT L. MCLAUGHLIN, ED., Innovations: An Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Fiction.
ABDELWAHAB MEDDEB, Talismano.
GERHARD MEIER, Isle of the Dead.
HERMAN MELVILLE, The Confidence-Man.
AMANDA MICHALOPOULOU, I’d Like.
STEVEN MILLHAUSER, The Barnum Museum.
In the Penny Arcade.
RALPH J. MILLS, JR., Essays on Poetry.
MOMUS, The Book of Jokes.
CHRISTINE MONTALBETTI, The Origin of Man.
Western.
OLIVE MOORE, Spleen.
NICHOLAS MOSLEY, Accident.
Assassins.
Catastrophe Practice.
Children of Darkness and Light.
Experience and Religion.
A Garden of Trees.
God’s Hazard.
The Hesperides Tree.
Hopeful Monsters.
Imago Bird.
Impossible Object.
Inventing God.
Judith.
Look at the Dark.
Natalie Natalia.
Paradoxes of Peace.
Serpent.
Time at War.
The Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades.
WARREN MOTTE,
Fables of the Novel: French Fiction since 1990.
Fiction Now: The French Novel in the 21st Century.
Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature.
GERALD MURNANE, Barley Patch.
Inland.
YVES NAVARRE, Our Share of Time.
Sweet Tooth.
DOROTHY NELSON, In Night’s City.
Tar and Feathers.
ESHKOL NEVO, Homesick.
WILFRIDO D. NOLLEDO, But for the Lovers.
FLANN O’BRIEN, At Swim-Two-Birds.
At War.
The Best of Myles.
The Dalkey Archive.
Further Cuttings.
The Hard Life.
The Poor Mouth.
The Third Policeman.
CLAUDE OLLIER, The Mise-en-Scène.
Wert and the Life Without End.
GIOVANNI ORELLI, Walaschek’s Dream.
PATRIK OUŘEDNÍK, Europeana.
The Opportune Moment, 1855.
BORIS PAHOR, Necropolis.
FERNANDO DEL PASO, News from the Empire.
Palinuro of Mexico.
ROBERT PINGET, The Inquisitory.
Mahu or The Material.
Trio.
A. G. PORTA, The No World Concerto.
MANUEL PUIG, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth.
The Buenos Aires Affair.
Heartbreak Tango.
RAYMOND QUENEAU, The Last Days.
Odile.
Pierrot Mon Ami.
Saint Glinglin.
ANN QUIN, Berg.
Passages.
Three.
Tripticks.
ISHMAEL REED, The Free-Lance Pallbearers.
The Last Days of Louisiana Red.
Ishmael Reed: The Plays.
Juice!
Reckless Eyeballing.
The Terrible Threes.
The Terrible Twos.
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.
JASIA REICHARDT, 15 Journeys Warsaw to London.
NOËLLE REVAZ, With the Animals.
JOĀO UBALDO RTBEIRO, House of the Fortunate Buddhas.
JEAN RICARDOU, Place Names.
RAINER MARIA RILKE, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
JULIÁN RÍOS, The House of Ulysses.
Larva: A Midsummer Night’s Babel.
Poundemonium.
Procession of Shadows.
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS, I the Supreme.
DANIËL ROBBERECHTS, Arriving in Avignon.
JEAN ROLIN, The Explosion of the Radiator Hose.
OLIVIER ROLIN, Hotel Crystal.
ALIX CLEO ROUBAUD, Alix’s Journal.
JACQUES ROUBAUD, The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart.
The Great Fire of London.
Hortense in Exile.
Hortense Is Abducted.
The Loop.
Mathematics:
The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis.
SELECTED DALKEY ARCHIVE TITLES
The Princess Hoppy.
Some Thing Black.
LEON S. ROUDIEZ, French Fiction Revisited.
RAYMOND ROUSSEL, Impressions of Africa.
VEDRANA RUDAN, Night.
STIG SᴁTERBAKKEN, Siamese.
LYDIE SALVAYRE, The Company of Ghosts.
Everyday Life.
The Lecture.
Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal.
The Power of Flies.
LUIS RAFAEL SÁNCHEZ,
Macho Camacho’s Beat.
SEVERO SARDUY, Cobra & Maitreya.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE,
Do You Hear Them?
Martereau.
The Planetarium.
ARNO SCHMIDT, Collected Novellas.
Collected Stories.
Nobodaddy’s Children.
Two Novels.
ASAF SCHURR, Motti.
CHRISTINE SCHUTT, Nightwork.
GAIL SCOTT, My Paris.
DAMION SEARLS, What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going.
JUNE AKERS SEESE,
Is This What Other Women Feel Too?
What Waiting Really Means.
BERNARD SHARE, Inish.
Transit.
AURELIE SHEEHAN, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant.
VIKTOR SHKLOVSKY, Bowstring.
Knight’s Move.
A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922.
Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot.
Literature and Cinematography.
Theory of Prose.
Third Factory.
Zoo, or Letters Not about Love.
CLAUDE SIMON, The Invitation.
PIERRE SINIAC, The Collaborators.
KJERSTI A. SKOMSVOLD, The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am.
JOSEF ŠKVORECKÝ, The Engineer of Human Souls.
GILBERT SORRENTINO,
Aberration of Starlight.
Blue Pastoral.
Crystal Vision.
Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things.
Mulligan Stew.
Pack of Lies.
Red the Fiend.
The Sky Changes.
Something Said.
Splendide-Hôtel.
Steelwork.
Under the Shadow.
W. M. SPACKMAN, The Complete Fiction.
ANDRZEJ STASIUK, Dukla.
Fado.
GERTRUDE STEIN, Lucy Church Amiably.
The Making of Americans.
A Novel of Thank You.
LARS SVENDSEN, A Philosophy of Evil.
PIOTR SZEWC, Annihilation.
GONÇALO M. TAVARES, Jerusalem.
Joseph Walser’s Machine.
Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique.
LUCIAN DAN TEODOROVICI,
Our Circus Presents…
NIKANOR TERATOLOGEN, Assisted Living.
STEFAN THEMERSON, Hobson’s Island.
The Mystery of the Sardine.
Tom Harris.
TAEKO TOMIOKA, Building Waves.
JOHN TOOMEY, Sleepwalker.
JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, The Bathroom.
Camera.
Monsieur.
Reticence.
Running Away.
Self-
Portrait Abroad.
Television.
The Truth about Marie.
DUMITRU TSEPENEAG, Hotel Europa.
The Necessary Marriage.
Pigeon Post.
Vain Art of the Fugue.
ESTHER TUSQUETS, Stranded.
DUBRAVKA UGRESIC, Lend Me Your Character.
Thank You for Not Reading.
TOR ULVEN, Replacement.
MATI UNT, Brecht at Night.
Diary of a Blood Donor.
Things in the Night.
ÁLVARO URIBE AND OLIVIA SEARS, EDS.,
Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction.
ELOY URROZ, Friction.
The Obstacles.
LUISA VALENZUELA, Dark Desires and the Others.
He Who Searches.
MARJA-LUSA VARTIO, The Parson’s Widow.
PAUL VERHAEGHEN, Omega Minor.
AGLAJA VETERANYI, Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta.
BORIS VIAN, Heartsnatcher.
LLORENÇ VILLALONGA, The Dolls’ Room.
TOOMAS VINT, An Unending Landscape.
ORNELA VORPSI, The Country Where No One Ever Dies.
AUSTRYN WAINHOUSE, Hedyphagetica.
PAUL WEST, Words for a Deaf Daughter & Gala.
CURTIS WHITE, America’s Magic Mountain.
The Idea of Home.
Memories of My Father Watching TV.
Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics.
Requiem.
DIANE WILLIAMS, Excitability: Selected Stories.
Romancer Erector.
DOUGLAS WOOLF, Wall to Wall.
Ya! & John-Juan.
JAY WRIGHT, Polynomials and Pollen.
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence.
PHILIP WYLIE, Generation of Vipers.
MARGUERITE YOUNG, Angel in the Forest.
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.
REYOUNG, Unbabbling.
VLADO ŽABOT, The Succubus.
ZORAN ŽIVKOVIĆ, Hidden Camera.
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY, Collected Fiction.
VITOMIL ZUPAN, Minuet for Guitar.
SCOTT ZWIREN, God Head.
LYGIA FAGUNDES TELLES was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1923, and is one of the most respected authors in Brazilian literature. In 2005 she won the Camões Prize, the greatest literary award in the Portuguese speaking world, and she is one of only three female members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
MARGARET A. NEVES has translated work by Jorge Amado, Antonio Torres, Moacyr Scliar, and Edgard T. Ribeiro.
Originally published in Portugese as As Meninas by José Olympio Rio de Janeiro, 1973; and in English by Avon Bard, New York, 1982
Copyright © 1973 by Lygia Fagundes Telles
Translation and copyright © 1982 by Margaret A. Neves
Introduction © 2012 by Earl E. Fitz
First Dalkey Archive edition, 2012
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Telles, Lygia Fagundes.
[Meninas. English]
The girl in the photograph / Lygia Fagundes Telles ; translated by Margaret A. Neves; introduction by Earl E. Fitz. –– 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
p. cm.
“Originally published in Portugese as As Meninas by José Olympio Rio de Janeiro, 1973; and in English by Avon Bard, New York, 1982.”
eISBN 9781564788207
1. Women –– Fiction. I. Neves, Margaret A. II. Title.
PQ9697.T49M413 2012
869.3’42–dc23
2012020819
Partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency
Obra publicada com o apoio do Ministério da Cultura do Brasil/ Fundação Biblioteca Nacional / Coordenadoria Geral do Livro e da Leitura.
Work published with the support of Brazil’s Ministry of Culture / National Library Foundation / Coordinator General of the Book and Reading.
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