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Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth

Author : Salvador Espriu
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564787737
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth written by Salvador Espriu and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the defining texts of twentieth-century Catalan fiction, written by one of its most innovative and cherished writers, Salvador Espriu's Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a collection of thirty-four short stories in which the twists and turns of action, character, and place are as winding and sumptuous as the legendary maze of its title. Originally published in 1935 in the midst of great countrywide political and social upheaval, these stories are a mirror, a grotesque mirror, held up to Catalan and Spanish society. Infused with a deep sense of mythic power, blending social realism with lush modernist experiment, Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth is a triumph of style. Perhaps best known for his poetry, Espriu's rich lyricism and highly evocative use of the Catalan language are here brought to life in the poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips's remarkable English language translation of a classic of world literature.

Literary Labyrinths in Franco-Era Barcelona

Author : Colleen P. Culleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317104595
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Literary Labyrinths in Franco-Era Barcelona written by Colleen P. Culleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together works by Salvador Espriu, Juan Goytisolo, Mercè Rodoreda, Esther Tusquets, and Juan Marsa that portray memory as a disorienting narrative enterprise, Colleen Culleton argues that the source of this disorientation is the material reality of life in Barcelona in the immediate post-Civil War years. Barcelona was the object of harsh persecution in the first years of the Franco regime that included the erasure of marks of Catalan identity and cultural history from the urban landscape and made Barcelona a moving target for memory. The literature and film she examines show characters struggling to produce narratives of the remembered past that immediately conflict with the dominant version of Spain's historical narrative formulated to legitimize the Civil War. Culleton suggests the trope of the laberinto, used as an image or device in all five of the works she considers and translated into English as both maze and labyrinth, opens up a space that enables readers to take vulnerability to outside interference into account as an inseparable part of remembrance. While the narratives all have maze-like qualities involving a high level of reader participation and choice, the exigencies of the labyrinth with its unicursal demands for patience, perseverance, and faith always prevail. Thus do the Francoist narrative and social structure in the end resurface and reassert themselves over the narrating character's perspective.

Zundel's Exit

Author : Markus Werner
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 156478956X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Zundel's Exit written by Markus Werner and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Zündel: a philosopher, a wanna-be writer; scattered, self-conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent . . . At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. Zündel’s Exit is a Chaplinesque comedy of disintegration, never knowing if it’s coming or going. Scrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Zündel: a philosopher, a wanna-be writer; scattered, self-conscious, glum, anxious, unlucky, discontent . . . At the end of his rope, he decides to flee his workaday life at all costs, only to find escape always a little beyond his reach. First his tooth falls out in the sight of other travelers, then he finds a severed finger in a restroom on a train. In fact, Zündel seems on the verge of falling to bits, as do his words, thoughts, wife, and world—will there be anything left, and anyone to hold the pieces? Zündel’s Exit is a Chaplinesque comedy of disintegration, never knowing if it’s coming or going.

Scar

Author : Sara Mesa
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628972629
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Scar written by Sara Mesa and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonia meets Knut in an online literary forum and begins a long-distance relationship with him that gradually turns to obsession. Though Sonia needs to create distance when Knut becomes too absorbing, she also yearns for a less predictable existence. Alternately attracted to and repulsed by Knut, Sonia begins a secret double life of theft and betrayal in which she will ultimately be trapped for years.

Lily la Tigresse

Author : Alona Kimhi
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564789578
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Lily la Tigresse written by Alona Kimhi and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious second novel from actress and bestselling novelist Alona Kimhi holds up a comically warped mirror to contemporary Israel, as well as the very notion of "chick lit." Inhabiting a dark fairy-tale version of modern life, drawing equal inspiration from Angela Carter and the iconography of the classic horror movie, this is the story of Lily, our proudly overweight and romantically unlucky protagonist, who discovers a wild freedom in part through her friendship with a Russian prostitute, Ninush. This is a world of cellulite-dissolving panties, sex change as an outlet for self-expression, and the final triumph of the titular tigress; where metamorphosis is the rule, and where the waking world has become a funhouse prowled by our wildest desires.

No World Concerto

Author : A. G. Porta
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564789632
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book No World Concerto written by A. G. Porta and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by Spain's Revista Quimera as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, alongside Bolaño's 2666, Vila-Matas's Bartleby & Co., and Marías's Your Face Tomorrow, the many layers of The No World Concerto center around an old screenwriter, holed up in a shabby hotel in order to write a screenplay about his lover, a young piano prodigy who wants in turn to give up music and become a writer, and believes she may be in contact with creatures from another dimension. Shifting effortlessly between realities, The No World Concerto is a delightful and prismatic novel, and the first of A. G. Porta's books to appear in English, finally joining those of his early writing partner Roberto Bolaño.

The Ground

Author : Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466802537
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Ground written by Rowan Ricardo Phillips and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful debut from a powerfully original poetic voice A poignant and terse vision of New York City unfolds in Rowan Ricardo Phillips's debut book of poetry. A work of rare beauty and lyric grace, The Ground is an entire world, drawn and revealed through contemplation of the post-9/11 landscape. With musicality and precision of thought, Phillips's poems limn the troubadour's journey in an increasingly surreal modern world ("I plugged my poem into a manhole cover/That flamed into the first guitar"). The origin of mankind, the origin of the self, the self's development in the sensuous world, and––in both a literal and figurative sense––the end of all things sing through Phillips's supple and idiosyncratic poems. The poet's subtle formal sophistication—somewhere between flair and restraint—and sense of lyric possibility bring together the hard glint of the contemporary world and the eroded permanence of the archaic one through remixes, underground sessions, Spenserian stanzas, myths and revamped translations. These are poems of fiery intelligence, inescapable music and metaphysical splendor that concern themselves with lived life and the life of the imagination––both equally vivid and true––as they lay the framework for Phillips's meditations on our connection to and estrangement from the natural world.

Living Weapon

Author : Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721394
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Living Weapon written by Rowan Ricardo Phillips and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning essayist and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips presents a bracing renewal of civic poetry in Living Weapon. . . . and we’d do this again And again and again, without ever Knowing we were the weapon ourselves, Stronger than steel, story, and hydrogen. — from "Even Homer Nods" A revelation, a shoring up, a transposition: Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s Living Weapon is a love song to the imagination, a new blade of light honed in on our political moment. A winged man plummets from the troposphere; four NYPD officers enter a cellphone store; concrete sidewalks hang overhead. Here, in his third collection of poems, Phillips offers us ruminations on violins and violence, on hatred, on turning forty-three, even on the end of existence itself. Living Weapon reveals to us the limitations of our vocabulary, that our platitudes are not enough for the brutal times in which we find ourselves. But still, our lives go on, and these are poems of survival as much as they are an indictment. Couched in language both wry and ample, Living Weapon is a piercing addition from a “virtuoso poetic voice” (Granta).

A Perfect Disharmony

Author : Sébastien Brebel
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628972637
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book A Perfect Disharmony written by Sébastien Brebel and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle-aged couple takes in a prurient young woman picked up from the side of the road; a single mother struggles against the hostile feelings she harbors towards her precocious son; a man has alternative fantasies of domination and submission involving a fellow commuter; a hotel room is booked by an elderly woman in search of a place to end her life. In the fourteen stories that make up A Perfect Disharmony, Sébastien Brebel explores the experiences of isolated women and sexually obsessed men while weaving together digression, daydreams, and an accumulation of detail to create a wholly unique approach to the short story form.

Waltz

Author : Francesc Trabal
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 1564789853
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Waltz written by Francesc Trabal and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An occasionally absurd comedy of indecision and indolence from a maverick early modern. First published in 1936, and considered one of the most innovative and significant novels written in Catalan, Waltz tells the tale of an idle, introspective, and somewhat oblivious young “man without qualities” as he stumbles through a milieu of civic upheaval and bourgeois tragedy as he waltzes from one prospective bride to another, never willing to compromise his ideals, and so never quite becoming an adult. With one foot in the romanticism of Goethe or Kleist, and another in the wildly differing takes on the modern novel provided by Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, and Marcel Proust, respectively, Waltz is an occasionally absurd comedy of indecision and indolence structured in imitation of the dance from which it takes its title.

Best American Poetry 2016

Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501127578
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Best American Poetry 2016 written by David Lehman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues—guest edited this year by award-winning poet Edward Hirsch, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the president of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Best American Poetry series is “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh and memorable” (Robert Pinsky); a guiding light for the mood and shape of modern American poetry. Each year, this series presents essential American verse and the poets who create it. Truly the “best” American poetry has appeared in this venerable collection for over twenty-five years. A poet of decided brilliance since his 1981 debut collection, For the Sleepwalkers, Edward Hirsch curates a thoughtful selection of poetry for 2016 and an Introduction to be savored. Jumpha Lahiri said of Hirsch, “The trademarks of his poems are…to be intimate but restrained, to be tender without being sentimental, to witness life without flinching, and above all, to isolate and preserve those details of our existence so often overlooked, so easily forgotten, so essential to our souls.” Hirsch’s choices for this collection reflect the soul of poetry in America. As ever, series editor David Lehman opens this year’s edition with an insider’s guide and a thoughtful contemplation of poetry today.

Farewell to Prague

Author : Desmond Hogan
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564789799
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Prague written by Desmond Hogan and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer "Desmond" wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories, conversations, love affairs, memories, regrets, and confrontations: "the labyrinth of stories of people whose lives you touch . . . so that your mind becomes like a polychromatic Irish pub." Whether a series of tragic postcards, a cubist novel, or a memoir shorn of its connective tissue, A Farewell to Prague stands as Desmond Hogan's greatest achievement: a catalog of the moments that justify a life "or shine a light on its emptiness."

My Son's Girlfriend

Author : Jung Mi Kyung
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564789454
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book My Son's Girlfriend written by Jung Mi Kyung and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once an ironic portrayal of contemporary Korea and an intimate exploration of heartache, alienation, and nostalgia, this collection of seven short stories has earned the author widespread critical acclaim. With empathy and an overarching melancholy that is at times tinged with sarcasm but always deeply meaningful, Jung explores the ambition and chaos of urban life, the lives of the lost and damaged souls it creates, and the subtle shades of love found between them.

French Fiction Today

Author : Warren Motte
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628972459
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book French Fiction Today written by Warren Motte and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Fiction Today focuses on the French novel in the twenty-first century, examining a series of works that are exemplary of broader currents in the genre. Each of these texts wagers insistently upon our willingness to speculate about literature and its uses, in an age when the value of literature is no longer taken as axiomatic. Each of these texts may be thought of as a critical novel, a form that calls upon us to engage with it in a critical manner, promising that meaning will arise in the articulation of writing and reading. Each of these authors participates in a debate about what the novel is as a cultural form in our present—and about what it may become, in a future that begins right now.

Telltale: 11 Stories

Author : Gwee Li Sui
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564789403
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Telltale: 11 Stories written by Gwee Li Sui and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark anthology of short fiction presents six electrifying voices from Singapore: Alfian bin Sa’at, Wena Poon, Jeffrey Lim, Tan Mei Ching, Claire Tham, and Dave Chua. The tales they tell are graphic, gritty, and evocative, examining the lives of an array of complex characters, tormented by dilemmas that nonetheless go on to shape and direct them. Masterfully sequenced by editor Gwee Li Sui, and chosen for their perspectives on contemporary Singapore as much as for their own intrinsic merits as fiction, Telltale is a collection shedding new light on a budding literature of international merit.

Beauty Looks Down on Me

Author : Eun Heekyung
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628972432
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Beauty Looks Down on Me written by Eun Heekyung and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty Looks Down On Me is a collection of by turns sad and funny stories about the thwarted expectations of the young as they grow older. HeeKyung’s characters are misfits who by virtue of their bodies or their lack of social status are left to dream of momentous changes that will never come. Unsatisfied with work, with family, with friends, they lose themselves in diets, books, and blogs. Heekyung’s collection humorously but humanely depicts the loneliness and monotony found in many modern lives.

The Soil

Author : Yi Kwang-su
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1564789462
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book The Soil written by Yi Kwang-su and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major, never before translated novel by the author of Mujông / The Heartless—often called the first modern Korean novel—The Soil tells the story of an idealist dedicating his life to helping the inhabitants of the rural community in which he was raised. Striving to influence the poor farmers of the time to improve their lots, become self-reliant, and thus indirectly change the reality of colonial life on the Korean peninsula, The Soil was vitally important to the social movements of the time, echoing the effects and reception of such English-language novels as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.