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The Tempest
Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in a wintry, misty Venice to study Giorgione's painting 'The Tempest', the subject of his thesis and the centre of his academic life. But on his first day in the city, Ballesteros witnesses a murder which propels him into a dangerous and seductive web connecting the city's rarified academic circles with a master forger; a web which leads him to witness both theft and an orgy, and to break his heart, before the murder is solved. A stylish, highly atmospheric, sensuous thriller which explores the boundaries between art and reality, truth and fakery, intellect and beauty.
The Tempest
A Spanish art historian gets caught up in a Venetian murder investigation in this steamy and smart mystery by the author of Cons. In a tale with all the complex twists and turns of the city itself, The Tempest is a marvelously complex, erotic, and atmospheric mystery reminiscent of the bestselling novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Iain Pears. Murder, love, betrayal, and some of the world’s most beautiful objets d’art come together in Juan Manuel de Prada’s tempestuous, prize-winning novel set in Europe’s quintessentially enigmatic city: Venice. Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in wintry Venice to study Giorgione’s painting “The Tempest,” but on hi...
The Latin American Eco-cultural Reader
The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is an anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world, spanning the early colonial period to the present.
Tradition and Modernity
The Spanish Golden Age novelist Miguel de Cervantes has long cast a shadow over the writers who have followed in his wake. This book explores the great novelist's influence on contemporary Spanish writers. The links between the Golden Age tradition and contemporary writing are examined by leading academics in the field of the Spanish contemporary novel. The collection focuses on aspects of literary technique and metafiction, particularly the role of the narrator, the mixing of fictional and real characters, and self-reflection and literary criticism within the novel. These are all techniques that have recognisable Cervantine traits. Other parallels with Cervantes's writing are explored such as the portrayal of a hero with quixotic characteristics and the imitation of specific episodes from Cervantes's works.
Learning To Lose
It is the day of Sylvia’s sixteenth th birthday and her life as an adult is about to begin – not with the party she had been planning, but with a car crash. At the wheel is a talented young footballer, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the pitch. As their destinies collide, elsewhere in the city Sylvie’s father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair. Set against the maze of Madrid’s congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity and – above all – a way to survive forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together and holds the reader fast.
Pepita Jimenez: a Novel by Juan Valera
Juan Valera y Alcala-Galiano (1824-1905), one of 19th-century Spain's most well known authors, had a career in the diplomatic service with postings in Europe and the Americas. A serious student of his own and foreign literatures, Valera wrote novels, short stories, essays and literary criticism. Fluent in a number of languages, he also translated Longus's Daphne and Chloe from Greek into Spanish. The unifying thread of his creative work is "art for art's sake," that is, beauty as the end and purpose of imaginative literature, an ideal epitomised by Pepita Jimenez, long considered one of the best half dozen novels of 19th-century Spain. When it was first published in 1874, Pepita Jimenez beca...
A History of the Spanish Novel
A History of the Spanish Novel is the only volume in English that offers comprehensive coverage of the history of the Spanish novel, from the sixteenth century to the present day, with chapters written by some of the world-leading experts in the field.
Bodies that bleed
This work aims to develop new readings of the poetics and the politics of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) in the light of the bodily metamorphoses represented in the fairy tales. Metamorphic processes can be said to inform the stories of the collection both in a thematic and a stylistic perspective and address the need to rethink human experience altogether, especially as regards heterosexual relationships and power distribution between the sexes. By exhibiting the body and its changes in texts where it is traditionally concealed or treated as a natural essence, Carter foregrounds the powerful potential of metamorphosis – as a concept, a topic, a structuring and guiding principle, and as a proposed model – in order to expose and challenge patriarchal myths and discourses, which slow down or even prevent the progressive empowerment of women’s conditions and positions within society (in the Seventies as well as today). Carter’s creativity and commitment are engaged in a productive dialogue with some contemporary feminist philosophers, to show how and why her fairy tales and their transformative potential can be – once again – signified anew.
Juan Manuel de Prada
Volumen colectivo sobre un joven autor considerado como un orfebre del lenguaje, un maestro de la adjetivación, un insólito conocedor de la técnica de la repetición de términos, lexemas y construcciones sintácticas, amén de un excepcional creador de símiles y metáforas.
