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The Obscene Bird of Night: unabridged, centennial edition

Author : José Donoso
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811232239
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Obscene Bird of Night: unabridged, centennial edition written by José Donoso and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra: at last, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso’s terrifying masterpiece sees the light of day Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of the crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are bent on transforming him, bit by bit, into the terrifying imbunche: a twisted monster with all of its orifices sewn up, buried alive in its own body. Once, Mudito walked upright and spoke clearly; once he was the personal assistant to one of Chile’s most powerful politicians, Jerónimo de Azcoitía. Once, he ruled over a palace of monsters, built to shield Jeronimo’s deformed son from any concept of beauty. Once, he plotted with the wise woman Peta Ponce to bed Inés, Jerónimo’s wife. Mudito was Humberto, Jerónimo was strong, Inés was beautiful—once upon a time... Narrated in voices that shift and multiply, The Obscene Bird of Night frets the seams between master and slave, rich and poor, reality and nightmares, man and woman, self and other in a maniacal inquiry into the horrifying transformations that power can wreak on identity. Now, star translator Megan McDowell has revised and updated the classic translation, restoring nearly twenty pages of previously untranslated text that was mysteriously cut from the 1972 edition. Newly complete, with missing motifs restored, plots deepened, and characters more richly shaded, Donoso’s pajarito (little bird), as he called it, returns to print to celebrate the centennial of its author’s birth in full plumage, as brilliant as it is bizarre.

The Obscene Bird of Night

Author : José Donoso
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780811232227
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book The Obscene Bird of Night written by José Donoso and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra: at last, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso's terrifying masterpiece sees the light of day

The Tension of Paradox

Author : Pamela May Finnegan
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tension of Paradox written by Pamela May Finnegan and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pamela Finnegan provides a detailed criticism of a major novel written by one of Chile's leading literary figures. She analyzes the symbolism and the use of language in The Obscene Bird of Night, showing that the novel's world becomes an icon characterized by entropy, parody, and materiality. Her study concludes that all linguistic ordering fictionalizes, that the lack of spirituality within the novel's world is symptomatic of language gone stale, and that blindness to this fact leads to dogma or solipsism, each counter-productive to communication and human endeavor. To revive the linguistic system, she argues, we must revive the creative power of language.

Divine Days

Author : Leon Forrest
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810145715
Total Pages : 1652 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Divine Days written by Leon Forrest and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 1652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A virtuosic epic applauded by Stanley Crouch as “an adventurous masterwork that provides our literature with a signal moment,” back in print in a definitive new edition “I have an awful memory for faces, but an excellent one for voices,” muses Joubert Jones, the aspiring playwright at the center of Divine Days. A kaleidoscopic whorl of characters, language, music, and Black experience, this saga follows Jones for one week in 1966 as he pursues the lore and legends of fictional Forest County, a place resembling Chicago’s South Side. Joubert is a veteran, recently returned to the city, who works for his aunt Eloise’s newspaper and pours drinks at her Night Light Lounge. He wants to write a play about Sugar-Groove, a drifter, “eternal wunderkind,” and local folk hero who seems to have passed away. Sugar-Groove’s disappearance recalls the subject of one of Joubert’s earlier writing attempts—W. A. D. Ford, a protean, diabolical preacher who led a religious sect known as “Divine Days.” Joubert takes notes as he learns about both tricksters, trying to understand their significance. Divine Days introduces readers to a score of indelible characters: Imani, Joubert’s girlfriend, an artist and social worker searching for her lost siblings and struggling to reconcile middle class life with her values and Black identity; Eloise, who raised Joubert and whose influence is at odds with his writerly ambitions; (Oscar) Williemain, a local barber, storyteller, and founder of the Royal Rites and Righteous Ramblings Club; and the Night Light’s many patrons. With a structure inspired by James Joyce and jazz, Leon Forrest folds references to African American literature and cinema, Shakespeare, the Bible, and classical mythology into a heady quest that embraces life in all its tumult and adventure. This edition brings Forrest’s masterpiece back into print, incorporating hundreds of editorial changes that the author had requested from W. W. Norton, but were not made for their editions in 1993 and 1994. Much of the inventory from the original printing of the book by Another Chicago Press in 1992 had been destroyed in a disastrous warehouse fire.

Hell Has No Limits

Author : José Donoso
Publisher : Hell Has No Limits 28
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hell Has No Limits written by José Donoso and published by Hell Has No Limits 28. This book was released on 1999 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the powerful novel by Chilean writers, José Donoso.

Götz and Meyer

Author : David Albahari
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151011414
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Götz and Meyer written by David Albahari and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imparting the story of the systematic 1942 execution of five thousand Belgrade concentration camp prisoners in a transport truck, a school teacher recreates historical events for his students on a school bus, an endeavor that overwhelms the teacher with the brutality of the act.

Curfew

Author : Jose Donoso
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040279309
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Curfew written by Jose Donoso and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jose Donoso has created a hauntingly beautiful novel of contemporary Chile and the human condition. Curfew takes place during a twenty-four-hour period in January 1985. Matilde Neruda, widow of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, has just passed away and Chile's various factions rally to turn the event to their advantage. For Pinochet's junta it represents a chance to assert political authority; for the intellectuals who had basked in Neruda's light, it is an opportunity to grab the spoils of the estate.

Mad Toy

Author : Roberto Arlt
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822329404
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Mad Toy written by Roberto Arlt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silvio Astier falls into a life of petty crime as he grows up in 1920s Buenos Aires.

The Boom in Spanish American Literature

Author : José Donoso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231041645
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Boom in Spanish American Literature written by José Donoso and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Agape Agape

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440650039
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Agape Agape written by William Gaddis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.

A Naked Singularity

Author : Sergio de la Pava
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226141802
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book A Naked Singularity written by Sergio de la Pava and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Propulsive . . . The novel’s chaotic sprawl, black humor and madcap digressions make it a thrilling rejoinder to the tidy story arcs [of] most crime fiction.” —The Wall Street Journal Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Best Debut Novel Named a Best Book of the Year in the Wall Street Journal, Houston Chronicle, and Philadelphia City Paper A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, born to Colombian immigrants, who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender—one who, tellingly, has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack—and how his world then slowly devolves. A huge, ambitious novel in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, it’s told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If Infinite Jest stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, A Naked Singularity does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own, a character sneers, “Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law.” A Naked Singularity reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law. “A great American novel.” —Toronto Star

Complete Works and Other Stories

Author : Augusto Monterroso
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292753446
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Complete Works and Other Stories written by Augusto Monterroso and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion. This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otros cuentos] 1959) and Perpetual Motion (Movimiento perpetuo 1972). Together, they reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

Terra Nostra

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466840153
Total Pages : 1183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Terra Nostra written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 1183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation--the total work of art. Magnificently translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, Terra Nostra is, as Milan Kundera says in his afterword, "the spreading out of the novel, the exploration of its possibilities, the voyage to the edge of what only a novelist can see and say."

Square Wave

Author : Mark De Silva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937512392
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Square Wave written by Mark De Silva and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand novel of ideas and compelling crime mystery, about security states past and present, weather modification, and imperial influences.

Grog War

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369378668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Grog War written by Alexis Wright and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award-winning author Alexis Wright.First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions, is more relevant now than ever. A searing account of what transpired over 25 years ago, Grog War provides historical context and Indigenous-led solutions to the challenges still confronting communities and towns throughout Australia.In the '90s, Wright was commissioned by the Julalikari Council of Tennant Creek to write Grog War, to document how Aboriginal Elders and leaders dealt with the invasion of grog on Warumungu land and the enormous struggle it took to introduce simple alcohol restrictions in the town. Grog War traces an Indigenous-led movement of self-determination that shifted the blame from Aboriginal people for public drunkenness to looking at the way grog is pushed and sold, in turn challenging the town and government to share responsibility.Aboriginal Elders and community advisors in Tennant Creek fought for years to put alcohol restrictions in place and they are still fighting. Their courage and tenacity is an inspiration for other towns in Australia who are battling against the tide of alcohol abuse and resistance from licencees and the broader community.Grog War is essential reading for all those working towards and interested in Indigenous self-determination, for community leaders, legislators, health workers, social workers - and for our young people - so that all Australian children might grow up with a better understanding of what Indigenous people have fought hard to achieve in this country.

This Sunday

Author : José Donoso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book This Sunday written by José Donoso and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Journey Round My Skull

Author : Frigyes Karinthy
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590172582
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Journey Round My Skull written by Frigyes Karinthy and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest café, wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring—so loud as to drown out all other noises—of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded by another. And another. Strange, Karinthy thought, it had been years since Budapest had streetcars. Only then did he realize he was suffering from an auditory hallucination of extraordinary intensity. What in fact Karinthy was suffering from was a brain tumor, not cancerous but hardly benign, though it was only much later—after spells of giddiness, fainting fits, friends remarking that his handwriting had altered, and books going blank before his eyes—that he consulted a doctor and embarked on a series of examinations that would lead to brain surgery. Karinthy’s description of his descent into illness and his observations of his symptoms, thoughts, and feelings, as well as of his friends’ and doctors’ varied responses to his predicament, are exact and engrossing and entirely free of self-pity. A Journey Round My Skull is not only an extraordinary piece of medical testimony, but a powerful work of literature—one that dances brilliantly on the edge of extinction.