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	Felipe Alfau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), was a Spanish American novelist and poet.
		Born in Barcelona, Alfau emigrated with his family at the age of fourteen to the United States, where he lived the remainder of his life.
		Alfau earned a living as a translator; his sparse fictional and poetic output remained obscure throughout most of his life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Felipe_Alfau (354 words)

	Collection Anime: Locos: A Comedy of Gestures (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) - $10.36 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 9 interlocking stories, Alfau (who only wrote оnе other novel, before taking uр a working-class life in New York) creates a series of characters who step in and out of each others' dreams and stories, interacting with the author, who in turn is рullеd into the novel as a character.
		Felipe Alfau, an spanish ехilе author, writing in english in the spanish civil war period (more or less) and with no political objectives in mind.
		Felipe Alfau was a strange character and so are his books - very vеrу different, they remind us of the writings of Vargas Llosa with a taste of Cortazar.
	www.collection-anime.com /tovar31353634373831373132.html (727 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: Felipe Alfau
		Alfau's depiction of the immigrant's plight is both playful and mournful.
		In Locos, Felipe Alfau creates a mercurial dreamscape in which the characters--the eccentric, sometimes criminal, habitues of Toledo's Cafe of the Crazy--wrench free of authorial control, invade one another's stories, and even turn into one another.
		Almost lost to literary history, Felipe Alfau was rediscovered in 1988 with the republication of his proto-postmodernist novel Locos; in 1990 his only other novel, Chromos (written in 1948), was published for the first time, winning great critical acclaim and a nomination for the National Book Award.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/alfau.html (793 words)

	Pulsão Negativa: Felipe Alfau
		O bartleby da segunda nota (que também cita rapidamente vários outros escritores, entre eles Rimbaud, Salinger e Hofmannsthal, todos posteriormente tratados com mais vagar) é Felipe Alfau (1902-1999).
		Catalão migrado para os EUA, publicou na década de vinte o romance Locos: a Comedy of Gestures e o livro infantil Old Tales from Spain e em seguida mergulhou em cerca de vinte anos de silêncio literário.
		Vila-Matas atribui-lhe uma desculpa para ter parado de escrever: "Parece-me genial o tio Celerino que Felipe Alfau tirou da manga.
	www.nemonox.com /bartleby/2005/03/felipe-alfau.html (151 words)

	Amazon.com: LOCOS: A COMEDY OF GESTURES: Books: Felipe Alfau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Felipe Alfau's phenomenal LOCOS: A COMEDY OF GESTURES anticipates a number of other movements and writers - Nabokov, Borges, Calvino and Cortazar could all be said to owe this novel a huge debt, whether they realize it or not.
		Felipe Alfau, an spanish exile author, writing in english in the spanish civil war period (more or less) and with no political objectives in mind.
		Felipe Alfau was a strange character and so are his books - very very different, they remind us of the writings of Vargas Llosa with a taste of Cortazar.
	www.amazon.com /LOCOS-COMEDY-GESTURES-Felipe-Alfau/dp/0679728465 (1991 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Felipe Alfau
		Felipe Alfau is a Spaniard who moved to New York City when he was a young man. According to the introduction he is ninety-six and living in a retirement community.
		Alfau is bored while waiting for documents, and he types a sentence which says, "The moment one learns English, complications set in." Mr.
		Near the end, he had his character falling in love with a mannequin, the queen of all women who would be the only one who ever knew his love and the fire of this love would break her pride and indifference.
	www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=3355555 (967 words)

	Felipe Alfau: Introduction
		The following article was written just before the BR received the announcement of Felipe Alfau's death, which passed relatively unnoticed in Barcelona.
		Unlike Pound, that other wrong-headed genius, there is no evidence of dubious politics or personal prejudices to be found in Alfau’s work (though, forearmed and with a fine-tooth comb, one could find the odd innuendo, simply given the pre-PC era in which it was written), which so strongly pits the writer against his writing.
		This is the Alfau that I have learned to love, even if his creator has outlived his time and spouts inanities.
	www.barcelonareview.com /12/e_fa_ret1.htm (331 words)

	Amazon.com: Chromos: Books: Felipe Alfau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Alfau bring the reader along with these migrs and we become a part of this great adventure, albeit as an accidental tourist with Alfau being the tour guide.
		Alfau drops names, names of painters, scientist, composers, philosophers and on and on not as name dropping per se, but rather to give a flavor of time and history that relates to how we dream--things always coming and going and seeming real, at least what we think is real.
		While Alfau's politics and personality may seem anathema, "Chromos" is a remarkable work of literary imagination and narrative structure that should be read by anyone interested in modern and post-modern writing.
	www.amazon.com /Chromos-Felipe-Alfau/dp/091658352X (3253 words)

	Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archives - University of Missouri - Columbia
		Critics who wrote on Alfau in the late 1980s and early 1990s often argued that his novels were important because of their affinities with the works of postmodern authors like Calvino and Nabokov, Garcia Marquez and Borges.
		In Locos, individual identity is so fluid that it challenges imperialist notions of identity as determined by race and class, yet this fluidity also creates a meritocracy in which some characters succeed in establishing their own identities while others fail.
		Ultimately, reading Alfau as a modernist may lead us to a clearer understanding not only of his novels, but of modernism and postmodernism as well.
	edt.missouri.edu /Winter2005/Thesis/ScottJ-051005-T1248 (313 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Felipe,
		Falla, Manuel de, 1876-1946, Spanish composer; pupil of Felipe Pedrell.
		In Paris from 1907 to 1914, he met Debussy, Dukas, and Ravel, and was to some extent influenced by their impressionism.
		EspaÃ±a espera una novia.(prÃncipe Felipe de EspaÃ±a)(TT: Spain awaits for a bride.)(TA: Prince Felipe of Spain)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Felipe, (703 words)

	Appendix B: Praetorian Politics in Liberal Spain
		Born in 1848, Alfau won his promotions in the Carlist wars, in Cuba, and in Africa.
		Six months later, the Spanish occupation of Tetuan led to renewed guerrilla warfare, and Alfau was dismissed.
		Champion of the Juntas de Defensa in 1917, Alfau was passed to the reserve after passage of the reform law of 1918.
	libro.uca.edu /boyd/appendixb.htm (3143 words)

	Catch & Release » Blog Archive » some plain talking from felipe alfau
		I’ve never heard of Felipe Alfau but his answers to the interviewer’s questions are hilarious.
		Billectric thought you might all enjoy this interview with Felipe Alfau.
		FELIPE ALFAU: I am not a professional writer.
	donavanhall.net /blog/?p=89 (473 words)

	jus gladii » Mr. Felipe Alfau
		There are some who take it a step further, and cut themselves as an outlet for their pain.
		They are all amateurs next to Felipe Alfau.
		Alfau died in 1999, but the interview is worth reading.
	jusgladii.nfshost.com /?p=10 (320 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » Read and Appreciated in 2003
		Alfau anticipated by several decades most of the techniques used by metafictional writers such as Pynchon.
		Alfau takes as his theme the magical troubles of Spanish immigrants in New York, including the remarkable and unlikely rivals, Don Pedro Guzman O’Moore Algoracid and Dr José de los Rios, both patrons of the arts, absurdity and Café Telescopio, and horribly real among characters who are still in the process of being written.
		One of these latter, the unfortunate Ramos, has acquired the power of leapfrogging the painful segments of his life, a trick to which he becomes addicted as he grows oversensitive to minor sufferings, until he uses up his entire existence.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /show.html?rw,2003-hughes,2 (434 words)

	Politics and the official language issue - CJOnline Blogs
		I think the Spanish-American novelist Felipe Alfau would be amused with this proposal.
		One of the most informative witnesses was a law professor who told the committee that, as written, this particular bill would have forced the state to change the state motto "Ad Astra Per Aspera" because it was written in Latin and not English.
		Alfau concludes his diagnosis of the English speaker by noting, "He gradually loses his capacity to see and think straight until he emerges with all other English-speaking persons in complete incapacity to understand the obvious.
	blogs.cjonline.com /index.php?entry=115 (995 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Looking Back on 'Locos'
		The author, Felipe Alfau, was said to be a young Spaniard writing in English.
		Alfau, or his book, was evidently my fatal type, which I would meet again in Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire and more than once in Italo Calvino.
		I never heard of Alfau again, though for a time I used to ask about him whenever I met a Spaniard; not one knew his name.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/article-preview?article_id=4205 (431 words)

	Eduardo Lago—An Ode to Brooklyn - 4/15/2006 - Criticas - CA6322850
		A series of unusual and unforgettable characters parade through the pages, from the clients of the Oakland who are trapped in a rather fatal destiny to Russian music student Nadia Orlov, the object of Ackerman’s obsession and the only reader he wants for his novel.
		Felipe Alfau: “Writing is a very arduous task” and “The last thing one can do is bore the reader.”
		He was an interesting vanguard author, at times limited, but he was like a father to me in that tradition.In the novel, I use him to express my own ideas about literature.
	www.criticasmagazine.com /article/CA6322850.html (2026 words)

	Author Information: Felipe Alfau :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Author Information: Felipe Alfau :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Felipe Alfau was born in 1902 in Barcelona.
		He immigrated to the United States during World War I, where he studied music and wrote music criticism.
	www.iblist.com /author11536.htm (42 words)

	TTA PRESS DISCUSSION FORUM: Felipe Alfau/ Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I think Felipe should get better acquainted with the history of writing, which is liberally peppered (peppered?
		If one puts 'felipe alfau' and 'smug' in google, the very first item one gets at the top of the hit list is this interesting interview with Rhys:
		I confess it: Rhys first recommended Felipe Alfau to me many moons ago.
	www.ttapress.com /cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=570&post=41495 (1996 words)

	Elections: Latin American Studies: Collections: SSHL
		Welles 1928: "Santana, who had attempted to induce General Felipe Alfau to accept the Vice Presidency, was forced, upon Alfau's refusal, to offer it to General Manuel de Regla Mota, who took office at the end of August, 1854" (page 146).
		Schoenrich 1918: "From the earliest days of the Dominican Republic the most prominent men had believed that the happiness of the country depended upon securing the protection of a strong power, capable of preserving order, and the years of warfare confirmed them in their opinion" (page 54).
		Welles 1928: The "Spanish Ministers had commenced to feel that Santana was by no means so indispensable to their purposes as they had at first been led to believe...
	sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/dominicanrepublic/1850.html (5703 words)

	Chromos (American Literature (Dalkey Arc… by Felipe Alfau \| LibraryThing
		Chromos (American Literature (Dalkey Arc… by Felipe Alfau
		Locos : a comedy of gestures by Felipe Alfau (8/28)
		Locos : a comedy of gestures by Felipe Alfau
	www.librarything.com /work/84261 (266 words)

	Amazon.com: Literature is corny: the cursi and Felipe Alfau's 'Chromos.' (Georges Perec/Felipe Alfau): An article from: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Amazon.com: Literature is corny: the cursi and Felipe Alfau's 'Chromos.' (Georges Perec/Felipe Alfau): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Books: Antonio Candau
		From the supplier: Felipe Alfau's novel 'Chromos' is filled with the irony that Alfau used to view all literature because it is a pale imitation of reality and yet desperately wants to be real.
		The narrator is aware of this irony as well as being a part of it because he recognizes the false reality of the stories he is being told about Spanish Americans while at the same time recognizes that his story is just as false.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00091KBZE (596 words)

	Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview with Felipe Alfau
		Your sister Monserrat, married to Felipe Teixidor, was close to the publishing house Editorial Porrua, S.A., in Mexico City.
		IS: One of your other sisters, Jesusa Alfau de Solalinde, who married a professor and lived in Wisconsin, wrote a very well-received novel, "Los debiles," before she turned twenty.
		FA: Jesusa and her husband, the philologist Antonio Solalinde, did like my first novel.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /interviews/interview_alfau.html (2464 words)

	Titles by Felipe Alfau
		In 1988, Dalkey Archive reprinted Felipe Alfau’s neglected masterpiece of 1936, Locos: A Comedy of Gestures, which drew renewed praise from the New Yorker and other magazines.
		Chromos, his second and only other novel, was written in the 1940s but never published largely, we suspect, because it was years ahead of its time, using techniques that would later be “discovered” by such authors as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon.
		Everything from the proper way to drink wine to theories of entropy are bandied about in this strange tertulia, which ends with a Kafkaesque episode of unforgettable power.
	www.awardannals.com /creator.php?id=1593 (133 words)

	Chromos by Alfau Felipe - Used Books At Biblio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Chromos by Alfau Felipe - Used Books At Biblio
		Written in the 1940s but unpublished until 1990; by the author of Locos.
		"Alfau was exploring the essential artifice of fiction long before Barth.
	www.biblio.com /books/7942571.html (657 words)

	Aberration of starlight par Gilbert Sorrentino \| LibraryThing
		Locos : a comedy of gestures par Felipe Alfau (5/28)
		Locos : a comedy of gestures par Felipe Alfau
		Chromos (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) par Felipe Alfau
	www.librarything.fr /work/277942&book=6629881 (288 words)

	Catch & Release » 2005 » August
		Even if someone started writing the instant after the Big Bang and wrote as fast as they could up to this very moment, they would not have been able to produce the number of books you are talking about.'’“Ah, yes,'’ says the Annotator….
		Here’s my favorite quote: “A Writer With Cojones:Billectric thought you might all enjoy this interview with Felipe Alfau….
		It should be abolished, at least in the form we know: as a money-making endeavor.IS: How do you think writers should support themselves?FA: I am not sure, but certainly not by selling their books as jewelry.IS: Yet I know you first submitted “Locos” to a New York publisher for financial reasons.
	www.donavanhall.net /blog/?m=20050826 (257 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Eight Easy Pieces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Can this be the same Charles Johnson who was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant, and who won the 1990 National Book Award for Middle Passage?
		(I've always felt that should have gone to his fellow nominee Felipe Alfau for Chromos.) Only then did I notice the subtitle calling these "Bedtime Stories" and a note in the back explaining that these two stories and three others "were originally written for Humanities Washington, which commissions local Seattle writers to read new stories.
		The yearly readings have become a major Seattle literary event." Ah, the literary equivalent of a night at the Boston Pops, then.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33497-2005Feb17?language=printer (759 words)

	Land of Laughs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Written in the 1940s but unpublished until now, this surreal and labyrinthine fiction is the only other novel by Felipe Alfau, whose 1936 Locus was reissued to great acclaim in 1989.
		While perhaps "unreadable," as Alfau says, by those looking for a traditional linear narrative with an unvarnished plot, "Chromos" is a joyride for those who like experimentation, complexity and intellectual pyrotechnics." - A Reader
		Locos: A Comedy of Gestures - Felipe Alfau
	dks.thing.net /Land_of_Laughs.html (9706 words)

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