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In Search of Klingsor
Assigned to identify Hitler's top advisor on the atomic bomb, young physicist Francis Bacon encounters a survivor of the coup attempt against Hitler before entering into a complicated relationship with a mysterious woman.
Season of Ash
The Soviet biologist Irina Granina has experienced the worst of Communism, struggling to free her husband from the gulag for years. Following the rise of Gorbachev, her husband finally emerges a changed man, but then Irina is forced to witness the worst of capitalism, as her daughter disappears into the new consumer society and she loses her husband again, this time to greed and a lust for power. In the West, Jennifer Moore, a wealthy American, takes a high-ranking job at the IMF, hoping to bring the free market economy to all, whilst dealing with her philandering husband.
In Spite of the Dark Silence
"In Spite of teh Dark Silence," presents a biographical perspective on the tragic life of the poet and chemist Jorge Cuesta. Cuesta was one of the founders of Los Contemporáneos, an influential twentieth-century literary movement. The poetic voice of Cuesta's verses can be heard throughout, offering insights into the creative and destructive forces and impulses in his work that eventually led to a mental ward?and a shocking suicide at thirty-eight.
In Search of Klingsor
Already an international bestseller, In Search of Klingsor traces an American physicist's thrilling search to unmask Hitler's chief science advisor, the man whose work on the German atomic bomb threatened Allied security. In 1946, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is pursuing research under the guidance of Albert Einstein, Kurt Godel and other great minds of modern science. But because of a series of personal indiscretions he is forced to accept an altogether different, more sinister, assignment: uncover 'Klingsor', Hitler's foremost advisor on the atomic bomb. But who is Klingsor and where might he be found?Bacon's efforts to expose the truth take him to Germany and to Gu...
The End of Madness
The human psyche, normally a fortress of strength, is most vulnerable when love dies. The emotionally chilling novellas in The End of Madness provide glimpses into the minds of people for whom love stopped existing. The End of Madness, the signature story, deals with despair born of David Reeds obsessive behavior. The story follows the decline of a famous novelist who blurs the line between loving, trusting and dying. When his love affair spins out of control, soaring to a point of no return, the writer plunges an alluring mistress and a loving wife into their own brand of hell. An unexpected twist provides a gripping conclusion to this transatlantic journey into madness. THE VISITOR In The ...
Humanities
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music
En busca de Jorge Volpi. Ensayos sobre su obra
Jorge Volpi (México, D. F., 1968) estudió Derecho y Letras en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Doctor en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Salamanca, es autor de seis novelas A pesar del oscuro silencio (1992), Días de ira (1994), La paz de los sepulcros (1995), El temperamento melancólico (1995), Sanar tu piel amarga (1997), En busca de Klingsor (1999) y El fin de la locura , de volúmenes de cuentos y de los ensayos La imaginación y el poder.Una historia intelectual de 1968 (1998) y La guerra y las palabras.Una historia intelectual de 1994 (2004). En 1994 formó el grupo del Crack al lado de otros novelistas jóvenes, que, deseosos de enlazar con los escritores ...
Historia y epistemología en Jorge Volpi: la trilogía del siglo XX.
La obra presenta como principal objetivo investigar y valorar los sentidos de la historia y la epistemología en la Trilogía del siglo XX, del escritor mexicano Jorge Volpi (1968-), obra compuesta por las novelas En busca de Klingsor (1999), No será la tierra (2003) y El fin de la locura (2006). Para ello el estudio rastrea el boom, sus orígenes, influencia y mediación en la literatura hispanoamericana actual y, tras ello, se toma en consideración el paréntesis entre lo que muchos llamaron posboom y la modernidad-posmodernidad, de esta forma el análisis literario pone rumbo de manera más concreta al panorama actual de la literatura en México. A continuación se lleva cabo una sinops...
Science, Literature, and Film in the Hispanic World
Driven by such diverse advances as the Human Genome Project and the explosion of the World Wide Web, and also by the threat of human-inspired disasters such as global warming, the field of science and literature studies is currently undergoing an unprecedented expansion. The relations between science and literature have been and continue to be central to understanding Hispanic civilization and culture. In spite of this, Science, Literature, and Film in the Spanish-Speaking World is the first and only book to treat this new and dynamic field from an Hispanic perspective. This unique volume opens the door to an entirely new focus in the study of Hispanic literature and culture.
