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by Margaret Jull Costa;Annella McDermott

  Translated by MargaretJull Costa

  Alonso Zamora Vicente (Madrid, 1916) is a renowned literary critic and linguist, author of the standard work on Spanish dialectology. He was a professor at Madrid University and at the Instituto de Filologia in Buenos Aires. Throughout his life, he has also been, in his own words, a Sunday writer of short stories. His books include: La voz de la tierra (1958), Primeras hojas (1959) and Vegas bajas (1987). He won the 1980 Spanish National Prize for Literature for Mesa, sobremesa. `A Poor Man' is taken from Smith y Ramirez (1957) a collection of seven stories about the anxieties of life in the city.