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Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael Sánchez
This book undertakes the most comprehensive and theoretically rigorous examination to date of Luis Rafael S¡nchez's work in the context of cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and of the international and regional dimensions of S¡nchez's work in relation to
Reconocimientos
An intimate account of Latin America between revolutionary promise and populist authoritarianism.
Alfanhui
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Experience and Objectivity in the Writings of Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
This book provides, for the first time, an exposition of his philosophical writings - those on learning and cognition as well as those on reading, writing, and the nature of creativity in his quasi-Cervantine work, Las Semanas del jardin (1974). A consideration of these 'forgotten' works entails a reassessment both of Sanchez Ferlosio's novels, particularly El Jarama, and a critique of some of the critical orthodoxies which have grown up around the objetivista movement of the 1950s.
The River
During the Spanish Civil War, the River Jarama was the scene of a bloody, month-long battle, which ended in a stalemate. The Republicans suffered about 25,000 casualties and the Nationalists 20,000. In the novel, set nearly twenty years later, the Jarama has become a favourite picnic spot for those wanting to escape the Madrid heat. The novel describes one boiling hot day in August. Various groups of people from Madrid - young and old, married and single - have gone down to the River Jarama to swim and to picnic. During the course of the day, they talk, flirt, get drunk, argue and, mostly, make their peace, and the novel carries the reader effortlessly from conversation to conversation, allowing us to eavesdrop on the characters' very ordinary and profoundly recognisable lives.
Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century
Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning entrepreneurs. Written off as corrupt and selfish, these entrepreneurs jarred with the received view of a rationally growing and modernising state. This volume shows that the state-entrepreneur relationship was much more fluid and constant than previously thought. The state was not able to enforce a top-down military supply policy; at the same time it benefi...
Macho Camacho's Beat
One day in the life of "Senator Vicente Reinosa, a crooked politician stuck in a gargantuan traffic jam; his neurotic, artistocratic wife; their son Benny, a fascist who is quite literally in love with his Ferrari; and the Senator's mistress, who inhabits a poorer world with her idiot child, her cousins (Hughie, Louie, and Dewey) and her friend Doña Chon."--Cover.
Been Had Paper
Oyah is a 17 year old kid from Bradenton, Florida. He had dreams as a child to become the next Tony Montana. Oyah grew tired of living day to day so he decided to form a family of close friends called THA FAM. Y.O.L.O. is Tha Fam's Moto, get rich by any means or die trying. On his Rise to the top, he encountered Trials and Tribulations but together Tha Fam overcomes it all. Tha Fam forces their way into the drug trade going up against some of the ruthless and most feared gangs and drug organizations the East Coast had seen. Oyah had more women then he knew what to do with. His infidelities caused him to go up against a close friend, causing casualties on both sides. All Tha Fam knows is Money, Murder, Mayhem and Loyalty. You owe money, you die! You Pussy, you die! You cross anyone on the Team, you die! Either you with Tha Fam or you against us.
Soldiers of Salamis
The International Bestseller of the Spanish Civil War - Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is the writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, and can hear a search party and their dogs hunting him down. The branches move and he finds himself looking into the eyes of a militiaman, and faces death for the second time that day. But the unknown soldier simply turns and walks away. Sanchez Mazas becomes a national hero and the soldier disappears into history. As Cercas sifts the evidence to establish what happened, he realises that the true hero may not be Sanchez Mazas at all, but the soldier who chose not to shoot him. Who was he? Why did he spare him? And might he still be alive? Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
