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Writing and the Revolution
Through a close reading of eight Venezuelan novels published between 2004 and 2012, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela's literary isolation.
En las ruinas
PREMIO TIFLOS CUENTO 2024 La muerte que deriva del reencuentro de un antiguo grupo de amigos, los días finales de una escritora poco antes del estallido de la Guerra Civil española, el niño que ve desaparecer a su primo y compañero de juegos o la anciana que comienza a perder la memoria son algunas de las siete historias que conforman este volumen de relatos, unidos bajo un único concepto: la inocencia con la que se puede vivir entre ruinas y escombros. Estas narraciones, escritas con notoria variedad de registros y técnicas, recorren la desolación, la ternura, la sentimentalidad de seres que sobreviven como pueden, bajo una mirada desde lo más profundo de su interioridad, historias ...
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered—Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez—are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: *the author's reception in their native country, Spanish America, and Spain *biographical history *a critical examination of their work, including key themes and conceptual concerns *translation history *scholarly reception The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.
Writing and the Revolution
Through a close reading of eight Venezuelan novels published between 2004 and 2012, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela’s literary isolation.
Fracture
A survivor of the atomic bombs dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Mr Watanabe has evaded the memory for most of his nomadic life. When the 2011 earthquake strikes, triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the past becomes the present, and Mr Watanabe begins a journey that will change everything. Written with intimacy and compassion, Fracture is a remarkable novel about collective trauma, love and the complexities of human life.
Wall to Wall: Law as Culture in Latin America and Spain
'Wall to Wall: Law as Culture in Latin America and Spain' comprises interventions from a wide array of scholars based in the US, Spain, and Latin America, exploring the encounter of Hispanophone cultures and the law. Its contributors delineate a fraught relationship of complicity, negotiation, and outright confrontation covering five centuries and a truly global landscape, from Inquisitorial processes at the onset of the Spanish Empire to last-ditch plans to preserve it in the 19th century Philippines, to the challenges to contemporary articulations of the nation-state in Catalonia. Beyond single, specialized time-period and national cultures, 'Wall to Wall' embraces and showcases the hetero...
The Night
For readers who love Bolaño, a new voice of Latin American fiction, winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa Prize. Recurring blackouts envelop Caracas in an inescapable darkness that makes nightmares come true. Real and fictional characters, most of them are writers, exchange the role of narrator in this polyphonic novel. They recount contradictory versions of the plot, a series of femicides that began with the energy crisis. The central narrator is a psychiatrist who manipulates the accounts of his friend, an author writing a book titled The Night; and his patient, an advertising executive obsessed with understanding the world through word puzzles. The author shifts between crime fiction and meta...
Les valises
La vie est un match de boxe, tendance lucha libre. À Caracas aujourd'hui il faut aussi survivre aux balles perdues et aux pénuries chroniques. Donizetti, fonctionnaire ordinaire, bonhomme et maladroit, chargé de convoyer de mystérieuses valises à travers le monde, veut juste gagner de quoi faire vivre ses deux familles, dont un fils taiseux et une ex-femme qui fait des fleurs en porcelaine. Mais à force de prendre des coups sans trop savoir d'où ils viennent, on finit par s'énerver. Avec Manuel, ami d'enfance, fan de boxe, qui survit en travaillant dans le magasin de chaussures de ses parents, ils vont tenter de prendre une revanche éclatante et définitive sur tous les profiteurs corrompus, les espions cubains et les mafias russes, la seule façon, peut-être, de survivre au marasme. Oscillant sans cesse entre le roman noir et l'épopée kafkaïenne, Méndez Guédez nous plonge avec ses deux losers magnifiques dans un monde où la réalité est toujours plus délirante que n'importe quelle fiction. C'est drôle, tragique, et terriblement littéraire.
The Magician of Vienna
The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of Memory, which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize, finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through the written word as a way to stave off the advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to lose the use of language.
