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Diana the Goddess Who Hunts Alone

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408837234
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Diana the Goddess Who Hunts Alone written by Carlos Fuentes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ___________________ AN EXPLORATION OF LOVE, LUST AND BETRAYAL Part novel, part expose, Diana is a stirring portrait of a passionate affair amid the cultural chaos of the 1960s and 1970s. The central character is Diana Soren, an elegy for a decade that refused to die. She is a predator set on self-destruction, and a casualty of her own times and beauty. Mexico's pre-eminent novelist presents a poignant story of bittersweet love that was a huge success in his native country.

Diana, the Goddess who Hunts Alone

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374139032
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Diana, the Goddess who Hunts Alone written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary exploration of love, lust, betrayal, and humiliation.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita

Author : Ruth Y. Hsu
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603295429
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita written by Ruth Y. Hsu and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structurally innovative and culturally expansive, the works of Karen Tei Yamashita invite readers to rethink conventional paradigms of genres and national traditions. Her novels, plays, and other texts refashion forms like the immigrant tale, the postmodern novel, magical realism, apocalyptic literature, and the picaresque and suggest new transnational, hemispheric, and global frameworks for interpreting Asian American literature. Addressing courses in American studies, contemporary fiction, environmental humanities, and literary theory, the essays in this volume are written by undergraduate and graduate instructors from across the United States and around the globe. Part 1, "Materials," outlines Yamashita's novels and other texts, key works of criticism and theory, and resources for Asian American and Asian Brazilian literature and culture. Part 2, "Approaches," provides options for exploring Yamashita's works through teaching historical debates, outlining principles of environmental justice, mapping geographic boundaries to highlight power dynamics, and drawing personal connections to the texts. Additionally, an essay by Yamashita describes her own approaches to teaching creative writing.

Romain Gary

Author : Ralph Schoolcraft
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203208
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Romain Gary written by Ralph Schoolcraft and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat—a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books. Born Roman Kacew, he overcame an impoverished boyhood to become a French Resistance hero and win the coveted Goncourt Prize under the pseudonym—and largely invented persona—Romain Gary. Although he published such acclaimed works as The Roots of Heaven and Promise at Dawn, the Gaullist traditions that he defended in the world of French letters fell from favor, and his critical fortunes suffered at the hands of a hostile press. Schoolcraft details Gary's frustrated struggle to evolve as a writer in the eye of a public that now considered him a known quantity. Identifying the daring strategies used by this mysterious character as he undertook an elaborate scheme to reach a new readership, Schoolcraft offers new insight into the dynamics of authorship and fame within the French literary institutions. In the early 1970s Gary made his departure from the conservative literary establishment, publishing works that boasted a quirky, elliptical style under a variety of pseudonymous personae, the most successful of which was that of an Algerian immigrant by the name of Emile Ajar. Moving behind the mask of his new creation, Gary was able to win critical and popular acclaim and a second Goncourt in 1975. But as Schoolcraft suggests, Gary may have "sold his shadow"—that is, lost his authorial persona—by marketing himself too effectively. Going so far as to recruit a cousin to stand in as the public face of this phantom author, Gary kept the secret of his true authorship until his violent death in 1980 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The press reacted with resentment over the scheme, and he was shunned into the ranks of literary oddities. Schoolcraft draws from archives of the several thousand documents related to Gary housed at the French publishing firms of Gallimard and Mercure de France, as well as the Butler Library at Columbia University. Exploring the depths of a story that has long remained shrouded in mystery, Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow is as much a fascinating biographical sketch as it is a thought-provoking reflection on the assumptions made about identities in the public sphere.

The Town Slowly Empties

Author : Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909394769
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Town Slowly Empties written by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one record an extraordinary time? Confined to his Delhi apartment, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee unravels the intimate paradoxes of life he encounters in the first weeks of a global pandemic. His stories about local fish sellers, gardeners, barbers and lovers merge with his concerns for the exodus of migrant labourers, the challenges faced by health workers, and a mother braving checkposts to bring her son home. Drawing inspiration from contemporary literature and cinema, The Town Slowly Empties is a unique window on a world desperate for love, care and hope. Manash is our Everyman, urging us to slow down and mend our broken ties with nature. Written with rare candour and elegance, this meditative book is a compelling account of the human condition that soars high above the empty streets.

The Eagle's Throne

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307432165
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Eagle's Throne written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a true literary event–the long-awaited new novel by Carlos Fuentes, one of the world’s great writers. By turns a tragedy and a farce, an acidic black comedy and an indictment of modern politics, The Eagle’s Throne is a seriously entertaining and perceptive story of international intrigue, sexual deception, naked ambition, and treacherous betrayal. In the near future, at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, Mexico’s idealistic president has dared to vote against the U.S. occupation of Colombia and Washington’s refusal to pay OPEC prices for oil. Retaliation is swift. Concocting a “glitch” in a Florida satellite, America’s president cuts Mexico’s communications systems–no phones, faxes, or e-mails–and plunges the country into an administrative nightmare of colossal proportions. Now, despite the motto that “a Mexican politician never puts anything in writing,” people have no choice but to communicate through letters, which Fuentes crafts with a keen understanding of man’s motives and desires. As the blizzard of activity grows more and more complex, political adversaries come out to prey. The ineffectual president, his scheming cabinet secretary, a thuggish and ruthless police chief, and an unscrupulous, sensual kingmaker are just a few of the fascinating characters maneuvering and jockeying for position to achieve the power they all so desperately crave.

Cinema of Outsiders

Author : Emanuel Levy
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814751237
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Cinema of Outsiders written by Emanuel Levy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important development in American culture of the last two decades is the emergence of independent cinema as a viable alternative to Hollywood's safe and innocuous entertainment. Indeed, while Hollywood studios devote much of their time and energy to churning out big-budget, star-studded event movies, a renegade independent cinema that challenges mainstream fare continues to flourish with strong critical support and loyal audiences.

The Years with Laura Diaz

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408837617
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Years with Laura Diaz written by Carlos Fuentes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _____________________ 'An admirable novel'- The Times 'In this portrait of men and women swept along by great events, and determined to be on the side of the angels, Fuentes has invested the often colourless world of politics with romantic ardour' - Sunday Telegraph _____________________ An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched. Like Fuentes's masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action in this novel begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City. From 1905 to 1978, Fuentes traces the extraordinary Laura Díaz; a life filled with a multitude of witty, heartbreaking scenes and the sounds, colours, tastes and scents of Mexico. Laura grows into a politically committed artist who is also a wife and mother, a lover of great men, and a complicated and alluring heroine whose bravery prevails despite her losing a brother, son, and grandson to the darkest forces of Mexico's turbulent, often corrupt politics. Hers is a life which has helped to affect the course of history, and it is the story of a woman who has loved and understood with unflinching honesty. _____________________ 'Fuentes's affair with the fickle forces of creativity reaches a rare and poignant intensity ... a landmark book' - Scotsman

Inez

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466801212
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Inez written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical short novel that weaves together two stories, two couples, two different times, and two grand passions In one of the narratives that comprise this superb new novel from Carlos Fuentes, we are introduced to Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great love Inez Prada, a renowned singer. In the other, Fuentes memorably delineates the very first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. In one, the intense drama of Berlioz's music for The Damnation of Faust informs the action; in the other, we watch as a slowly emergent love shapes the nature and character of the two protagonists. A beautiful crystal seal -- the meaning of which is a mystery that obsesses Atlan-Ferrara, who owns it -- unites these two narratives; the magical seal allows one to read unknown languages and hear impossible music, and it is the symbol of a shared love. The duality of Carlos Fuentes's brilliant new novel mirrors two eras, one in the deepest remote time and one in a time to come, but the passions evoked in both, reflected against each other like two sides of a crystal seal, break the limits of time and space and unite in one story. And, like the light refracted through the seal, it begins in prehistory and spirals out into infinity . . . In Inez, we find Carlos Fuentes at the height of his magical and realist powers. This profound and beautiful work confirms his standing as Mexico's pre-eminent novelist.

Where the Air is Clear

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564783448
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Where the Air is Clear written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where the Air Is Clear," Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies. First published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1988, Dalkey Archive Press in 2004, now available again.

A New Time for Mexico

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408845008
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book A New Time for Mexico written by Carlos Fuentes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time immemorial, Mexico's legendary beauty has been matched by intense historical drama. Mayan mythmakers, Aztec emperors, Spanish conquistadors, Yankee and French invaders, dictators and peasant revolutionaries are still vivid influences on Mexico's present. In this stunning collection of essays, first published in Britain in 1997, Carlos Fuentes examines mexico as it faces a new time. Torn between tradition and modernity, impatient with an exhausted political system but unsure how and with what to replace it, Mexicans are struggling to make the transition from authoritarian to democratic politics. Fuentes' bold and timely study discusses the origins and nature of the unforeseen events that have transformed Mexico's politics and scoiety: the 1994 rebellion in Chiapas, the subsequent rash of assassinations, the break between Presidents Salinas and Zedillo, and continual traumas for democratic self-rule.

Clint

Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312290320
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Clint written by Patrick McGilligan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a Hollywood legend peels back the mystery surrounding Clint Eastwood to reveal a rebel with a clear vision of human existence.

Fuentes, Terra Nostra, and the Reconfiguration of Latin American Culture

Author : Michael Abeyta
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826265111
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Fuentes, Terra Nostra, and the Reconfiguration of Latin American Culture written by Michael Abeyta and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grounding his study on the work of Derrida and Bataille, Abeyta focuses on the theme of the gift in Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra. Analyzing how gift giving, excess, expenditure, sacrifice, and exchange shape the novel, he reveals its relevance to current discussions about the relationship between art and the gift"--Provided by publisher.

Aura

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466840048
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Aura written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic—and controversial—Mexican novella: “A beautiful horror story, a horrifying story of beauty, a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen.” —Newsweek Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband’s memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion. This ebook edition of Carlos Fuentes’ novel includes only the English translation by Lysander Kemp. The Spanish text is not included. “Carlos Fuentes is a major force in contemporary Mexican letters. An heir to the exacerbated social conscience which burst forth in the flood of so-called ‘novels of the Mexican Revolution,’ he distinguishes himself today not only by his writing but also by the forceful leadership which he gives to the intellectual life of his country.” —The New York Times “An incredible story of love, death, and fate . . . a haunting and mesmerizing experience.” —The Sunflower “A novella by the author of Where the Air is Clear, The Good Conscience, and The Death of Artemio Cruz finds him at brilliant dark play as he swiftly carries the horror to its proof and inevitable fulfillment . . . Black on black, with all the accoutrements of the classic horror tale, this attains a fatalism that is the fullest realization of fantasy.” —Kirkus Reviews

Vlad

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 156478780X
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Vlad written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where, Carlos Fuentes asks, is a modern-day vampire to roost? Why not Mexico City, populated by ten million blood sausages (that is, people), and a police force who won’t mind a few disappearances? “Vlad” is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead: dispossessed after centuries of mayhem by Eastern European wars and rampant blood shortages. More than a postmodern riff on “the vampire craze,” Vlad is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture’s ways of dealing with death. For—as in Dracula—Vlad has need of both a lawyer and a real-estate agent in order to establish his new kingdom, and Yves Navarro and his wife Asunción fit the bill nicely. Having recently lost a son, might they not welcome the chance to see their remaining child live forever? More importantly, are the pleasures of middle-class life enough to keep one from joining the legions of the damned?

The Old Gringo

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374530525
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Old Gringo written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Old Gringo tells the story of Ambrose Bierce, the American author, soldier, and journalist, and of his last mysterious days in Mexico living among Pancho villa's soldiers - particularly his encounter with one of Villa's generals, Tomas Arroyo, as well as with a spirited young american woman named Harriet Winslow. In the end, the incompatibility between Mexico and the United States (or paradoxically, their intimacy) claims both Bierce and Arroyo, in a novel that is, most of all, about the tragic history of these two cultures in conflict."--Publisher description

Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity

Author : Maarten Van Delden
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826513458
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity written by Maarten Van Delden and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity, Maarten van Delden argues that there is a fundamental paradox at the heart of Fuentes's vision of Mexico and in his role as novelist and critic in putting forth that vision. This paradox hinges on the tension between national identity and modernity. A significant internal conflict emerges in Fuentes's work from his attempt to stake out two different positions for himself, as experimental novelist and as politically engaged and responsible intellectual. Drawing from the fiction, literary essays, and political journalism, van Delden places these tensions in Fuentes's work in relation to the larger debates about modernity and postmodernity in Latin America. He concludes that Fuentes is fundamentally a modernist writer, in spite of the fact that he occasionally gravitates toward the postmodernist position in literature and politics. Van Delden's thorough command of the subject matter, his innovative and sometimes iconoclastic conclusions, and his clear and engaging writing style make this study more than just an interpretation of Fuentes's work. Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity offers nothing less than a comprehensive analysis of Fuentes's work. Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and Modernity offers nothing less than a comprehensive analysis of Fuentes's intellectual development in the context of modern Mexican political and cultural life.