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Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Chronicles of Bustos Domecq written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supposed essays of a literary critic.
Author : Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170571
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Morel written by Adolfo Bioy Casares and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-08-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Inspired by Bioy Casares's fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction's now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film.
Author : Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212755
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Selected Stories written by Adolfo Bioy Casares and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen stories by an Argentinian writer mixing the fantastic with the real. The subjects range from love to madness.
Author : Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book A Plan for Escape written by Adolfo Bioy Casares and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Plan for Escape written by Adolfo Bioy Casares and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Plan for Escape is a weird, engrossing novel, bound to captivate--if not totally satisfy--most readers. The story revolves around Henri Nevers, a Frenchman sent by his father to a post at a penal colony in French Guiana. Arriving at Cayenne, the seat of government, Nevers learns that the governor, Castel, has deserted Cayerme to "be alone with the prisoners" on the islands. When Nevers ferries to the islands, Castel meets him with delight as "an educated collaborator." Nevers intuits that "Castel's interest in social and prison matters is strictly sadistic," and he tries to remain uninvolved. Confronted by inmates' allusive remarks and his own observations, however, he is compelled to follow the clues that lead him to unearth the horrible results of Castel's reign. Despite the novel's horrors, its tone is eerily distanced by its point of view: The tale is narrated by Nevers' uncle who has pieced it together from his nephew's letters. This perspective allows for holes in the story which readers who demand closure may not accept. (What-they might ask-is Nevers' motivation for making his last, dangerous trip?) Other readers will enjoy puzzling over the small mysteries left after the main mystery is solved. The relationship between prisoners and keepers is a dominant theme. As one character states, "Conscience and prisons are incompatible." This theme proceeds from Argentinian writer Bioy-Casares' reaction to accounts of Nazism in 1945, and it also-as others have noted--predicts the systematic tortures that would take place in his country in the 1970s. --Independent Publisher.
Author : Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590170953
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Asleep in the Sun written by Adolfo Bioy Casares and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his hands: his beloved wife, Diana. She’s been staying out till all hours of the night and grows more disagreeable by the day. Should Lucio have Diana committed to the Psychiatric Institute, as her friend the dog trainer suggests? Before Lucio can even make up his mind, Diana is carted away by the mysterious head of the institute. Never mind, Diana’s sister, who looks just like Diana—and yet is nothing like her—has moved in. And on the recommendation of the dog trainer, Lucio acquires an adoring German shepherd, also named Diana. Then one glorious day, Diana returns, affectionate and pleasant. She’s been cured!—but have the doctors at the institute gone too far? Asleep in the Sun is the great work of the Argentine master Adolfo Bioy Casares's later years. Like his legendary Invention of Morel, it is an intoxicating mixture of fantasy, sly humor, and menace. Whether read as a fable of modern politics, a meditation on the elusive parameters of the self, or a most unusual love story, Bioy's book is an almost scarily perfect comic turn, as well as a pure delight.
Author : Michel de Certeau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520271459
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Practice of Everyday Life written by Michel de Certeau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology--to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140180336
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book A Universal History of Infamy written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Fiddian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108470445
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Jorge Luis Borges in Context written by Robin Fiddian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global South.
Author : Ángel J. Cappelletti
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849352836
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)
Download or read book Anarchism in Latin America written by Ángel J. Cappelletti and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is the first book-length regional history ever published in English. With a foreword by the translator. Ángel J. Cappelletti (1927–1995) was an Argentinian philosopher who taught at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. He is the author of over forty works primarily investigating philosophy and anarchism. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.
Author : John R. Clark
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183316
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Modern Satiric Grotesque and Its Traditions written by John R. Clark and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. Assuredly he was correct. The subjects and methods of our comic literature (and much of our other literature) are regularly disturbing and often repulsive—no laughing matter. In this ambitious study, John R. Clark seeks to elucidate the major tactics and topics deployed in modern literary dark humor. In Part I he explores the satiric strategies of authors of the grotesque, strategies that undercut conventional usage and form: the de-basement of heroes, the denigration of language and style, the disruption of normative narrative technique, and even the debunking of authors themselves. Part II surveys major recurrent themes of grotesquerie: tedium, scatology, cannibalism, dystopia, and Armageddon or the end of the world. Clearly the literature of the grotesque is obtrusive and ugly, its effect morbid and disquieting—and deliberately meant to be so. Grotesque literature may be unpleasant, but it is patently insightful. Indeed, as Clark shows, all of the strategies and topics employed by this literature stem from age-old and spirited traditions. Critics have complained about this grim satiric literature, asserting that it is dank, cheerless, unsavory, and negative. But such an interpretation is far too simplistic. On the contrary, as Clark demonstrates, such grotesque writing, in its power and its prevalence in the past and present, is in fact conventional, controlled, imaginative, and vigorous—no mean achievements for any body of art.
Author : Jason Wilson
Publisher : Signal Books
ISBN 13 : 9781904955092
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Buenos Aires written by Jason Wilson and published by Signal Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The citys rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and, more recently, in a vogue for psycho-analysis even more widespread than New Yorks.
Author : Karl Posso
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708325386
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Adolfo Bioy Casares written by Karl Posso and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reconsiders the work and cultural import of Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999), who is best known for his collaborations with Jorge Luis Borges.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219074X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A Personal Anthology written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handpicked works from the greatest Argentinian writer of the twentieth century. “Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist” (Carlos Fuentes, author and diplomat). After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant “sketches,” which, in Borges’s hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. In this anthology, the author has put together those pieces on which he would like his reputation to rest; they are not arranged chronologically, but with an eye to their “sympathies and differences.” A Personal Anthology, therefore, is not merely a collection, but a new composition. “An important work, by far the best yet available to the reader . . . who seeks a representative sampling of the great Argentine writer . . . the standard introduction to Borges in England and the United States.” —Saturday Review
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Book of Sand written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen new stories by the celebrated writer, including two which he considers his greatest achievements to date, artfully blend elements from many literary geares.
Author : Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher : Dutton Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dream of Heroes written by Adolfo Bioy Casares and published by Dutton Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the end of carnival 1927, Emilio Gauna had an experience that he knew was the culmination of his life. The problem is that Gauna can only dimly remember what happened: he was out on the town with his raucous, reckless friends when a masked woman appeared. Several hours later, gasping and horrified, Gauna awoke at the edge of a lake. Three years later, he tries to solve the mystery the only way he knows: by re-creating the same situation and reliving it- despite the warnings of his secret protector, the Sorcerer. In The Dreams of Heroes, Adolfo Bioy Casares assembles magicians, prophetic and brave women, shamefully self-conscious men and Buenos Aires under the rubric of a sinister and mocking fate, and thrusts them forward into the dizzying realm of memory, doom and cyclical time. Written in 1954 and never before published in America, The Dream of Heroes stands as a predecessor of and model for a whole school of European and American novels that followed but never quite matched it"--
