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Weaving Tales
This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.
The Op-Ed Novel
The Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of El País. Their literary sensibility transformed opinion journalism, and their weekly columns changed their novels, which became venues for speculative historical claims, partisan political projects, and intellectual argument.
Borges and the Literary Marketplace
A fascinating history of Jorge Luis Borges’s efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) stands out as one of the most widely regarded and inventive authors in world literature. Yet the details of his employment history throughout the early part of the twentieth century, which foreground his efforts to develop a worldly reading public, have received scant critical attention. From librarian and cataloguer to editor and publisher, this writer emerges as entrenched in the physical minutiae and social implications of the international book world. Drawing on years of archival research coupled with bibliographical analysis, this book explains how Borges’s more general involvement in the publishing industry influenced not only his formation as a writer, but also global book markets and reading practices in world literature. In this way it tells the story of Borges’s profound efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America through his varying jobs in the publishing industry.
This Ghostly Poetry
This Ghostly Poetry explores the fraught relationship between poetry and literary history in the context of the Spanish Civil War, its aftermath, and ongoing debates about historical memory in Spain.
La querella de los novelistas
La configuración del pasado, permanentemente en cuestión, entraña una disputa política que nunca se limita a este, sino que atañe también a cómo nos situamos ante el futuro. Este libro analiza la lucha por establecer un relato hegemónico de la historia reciente de España que tuvo lugar a caballo entre los siglos XX y XXI. En ella los novelistas españoles tuvieron un protagonismo muy relevante. La querella sobre la Segunda República, la Guerra Civil y la posguerra conllevó una confrontación en torno al significado de la Transición y su legado. Desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar, que combina –entre otras– la historia cultural y los estudios de memoria, estas páginas iluminan los entresijos de esa lucha a partir del estudio de cinco destacados novelistas: Juan Marsé, Rafael Chirbes, Almudena Grandes, Antonio Muñoz Molina y Javier Cercas.
