Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811218147
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by : Roberto Bolaño

Download or read book Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.

Bolano

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Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 161219348X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis Bolano by : Monica Maristain

Download or read book Bolano written by Monica Maristain and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño, the author of the international bestsellers The Savage Detectives and 2666 How to know the man behind works of fiction so prone to extravagance? In the first biography of Chilean novelist and poet Roberto Bolaño, journalist Mónica Maristain tracks Bolaño from his childhood in Chile to his youth in Mexico and his early infatuation with literature, to years of tremendous literary productivity in Spain, and to his untimely death and the posthumous and unprecedented stardom that came with the international publication of his novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations is assembled from a series of rich interviews with the people who knew Bolaño best: we meet Bolaño's first publisher, who printed 225 copies of his first book of poetry; are introduced to his parents and an array of childhood friends, who watched a precocious young man turn into an obsessive writer who barely left the house; and witness the birth of Bolaño's famed Infrarealist literary movement. The book also sheds new light on aspects of Bolaño's life taht have long been shrouded in mystery: for the first time, we learn the details of his final illness and the drama of his final days. Throughout the book, Maristain present an image far removed from the stereotypes that have been created over the years, with the aim of reintroducing the man whose works grabbed readers worldwide. Maristain writes as a journalist and admirer, impressed with the power of Bolaño’s prose and the cool irony with which he faced the literary world.

Cowboy Graves

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222894
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Cowboy Graves by : Roberto Bolaño

Download or read book Cowboy Graves written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while deepening our reverence for his gifts.

Space Invaders

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Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451069
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (444 download)

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Book Synopsis Space Invaders by : Nona Fernández

Download or read book Space Invaders written by Nona Fernández and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s Chile Space Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen. In their dreams, they catch glimpses of Estrella’s braids, hear echoes of her voice, and read old letters that eventually, mysteriously, stopped arriving. They recall regimented school assemblies, nationalistic class performances, and a trip to the beach. Soon it becomes clear that Estrella’s father was a ranking government officer implicated in the violent crimes of the Pinochet regime, and the question of what became of her after she left school haunts her erstwhile friends. Growing up, these friends—from her pen pal, Maldonado, to her crush, Riquelme—were old enough to sense the danger and tension that surrounded them, but were powerless in the face of it. They could control only the stories they told one another and the “ghostly green bullets” they fired in the video game they played obsessively. One of the leading Latin American writers of her generation, Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history.

Antwerp (New Directions Pearls)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219917
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Book Synopsis Antwerp (New Directions Pearls) by : Roberto Bolaño

Download or read book Antwerp (New Directions Pearls) written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Antwerp's" signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.

Literature and Exile

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051832211
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (322 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature and Exile by : David Bevan

Download or read book Literature and Exile written by David Bevan and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113735383X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World by : R. Cobb

Download or read book The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World written by R. Cobb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authenticity in our globalized world is a paradox. This collection examines how authenticity relates to cultural products, looking closely at how a particular "ethnic" food, or genre of popular music, or indigenous religious belief attains its aura of originality, when all traditional cultural products are invented in a certain time and place.

The Language of Passion

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429921897
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis The Language of Passion by : Mario Vargas Llosa

Download or read book The Language of Passion written by Mario Vargas Llosa and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally acclaimed novelist Mario Vargas Llosa has contributed a biweekly column to Spain's major newspaper, El País, since 1977. In this collection of columns from the 1990s, Vargas Llosa weighs in on the burning questions of the last decade, including the travails of Latin American democracy, the role of religion in civic life, and the future of globalization. But Vargas Llosa's influence is hardly limited to politics. In some of the liveliest critical writing of his career, he makes a pilgrimage to Bob Marley's shrine in Jamaica, celebrates the sexual abandon of Carnaval in Rio, and examines the legacies of Vermeer, Bertolt Brecht, Frida Kahlo, and Octavio Paz, among others.

New Directions

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811206341
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)

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Book Synopsis New Directions by : Peter Glassgold

Download or read book New Directions written by Peter Glassgold and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roberto Bolaño In Context

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110887584X
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Roberto Bolaño In Context by : Jonathan B. Monroe

Download or read book Roberto Bolaño In Context written by Jonathan B. Monroe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his first fifteen years in Chile, to his nine years in Mexico City from 1968 to 1977, to the quarter of a century he lived and worked in the Blanes-Barcelona area on the Costa Brava in Spain through his death in 2003, Roberto Bolaño developed into an astonishingly diverse, prolific writer. He is one of the most consequential and widely read of his generation in any language. Increasingly recognized not only in Latin America, but as a major figure in World Literature, Bolaño is an essential writer for the 21st century world. This volume provides a comprehensive mapping of the pivotal contexts, events, stages, and influences shaping Bolaño's writing. As the wide-ranging investigations of this volume's 30 distinguished scholars show, Bolaño's influence and impact will shape literary cultures worldwide for years to come.

Tres (Bilingual Edition)

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224155
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Tres (Bilingual Edition) written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Poetry is braver than anyone,” Roberto Bolan~o believed, and the proof is here in Tres, his most inventive and bracing poetry collection. Roberto Bolan~o’s Tres is a showcase of the author’s willingness to freely cross genres, with poems in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. As the title implies, the collection is composed of three sections. “Prose from Autumn in Gerona,” a cinematic series of prose poems, slowly reveals a subtle and emotional tale of unrequited love by presenting each scene, shattering it, and piecing it all back together, over and over again. The second part, “The Neochileans,” is a sort of On the Road in verse, which narrates the travels of a young Chilean band on tour in the far reaches of their country. Finally, the collection ends with a series of short poems that take us on “A Stroll Through Literature” and remind us of Bolan~o’s masterful ability to walk the line between the comically serious and the seriously comical.

English as a Global Language

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107611806
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis English as a Global Language by : David Crystal

Download or read book English as a Global Language written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.

Contemporary Latin America

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111827492X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Latin America by : Robert H. Holden

Download or read book Contemporary Latin America written by Robert H. Holden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Latin America presents the epochal political, economic, social, and cultural changes in Latin America over the last 40 years and comprehensively examines their impact on life in the region, and beyond. Provides a fresh approach and a new interpretation of the seismic changes of the last 40 years in Latin America Introduces major themes from a humanistic and universal perspective, putting each subject in a context that readers can understand and relate to Focuses on ‘Ibero-America'--Brazil and the eighteen countries that were formerly Spanish possessions- while offering valuable comparative views of the non-Iberian areas of the Caribbean Emphasizes the global, regional and national dimensions of the region's recent past

Writing with Sources

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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603844848
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing with Sources by : Gordon Harvey

Download or read book Writing with Sources written by Gordon Harvey and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed for Harvard University's Expository Writing Program, Writing with Sources describes the main principles and methods of integrating and citing sources in scholarly work, and provides cogent guidance on avoiding the misuse of sources. The second edition of Writing with Sources is updated throughout, and includes new material on the roles sources play in argument, on assessing the reliability of sources, and on attitudes about writing that can lead to plagiarism.

Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137492961
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star by : I. López-Calvo

Download or read book Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star written by I. López-Calvo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.

Moral Mappings of South and North

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474423264
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Moral Mappings of South and North by : Peter Wagner

Download or read book Moral Mappings of South and North written by Peter Wagner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term 'Global South' marks a new attempt at providing order and meaning in the current global political constellation, replacing the term 'Third World'. But the term 'Global South' is fraught with many ambiguities. This book explores the possible meanings of this new distinction and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it for understanding the contemporary world. It casts a wide exploratory net, addressing historical transformations of world-interpretation and wider cultural-intellectual meanings.

Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom

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Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826502504
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)

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Book Synopsis Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom by : Juan E. De Castro

Download or read book Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom written by Juan E. De Castro and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time in which many in the United States see Spanish America as a distinct and, for some, threatening culture clearly differentiated from that of Europe and the US, it may be of use to look at the works of some of the most representative and celebrated writers from the region to see how they imagined their relationship to Western culture and literature. In fact, while authors across stylistic and political divides—like Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Luis Borges, or Gabriel García Márquez—see their work as being framed within the confines of a globalized Western literary tradition, their relationship, rather than epigonal, is often subversive. Borges and Kafka, Bolaño and Bloom is a parsing not simply of these authors' reactions to a canon, but of the notion of canon writ large and the inequities and erasures therein. It concludes with a look at the testimonial and autobiographical writings of Rigoberta Menchú and Lurgio Gavilán, who arguably represent the trajectory of Indigenous testimonial and autobiographical writing during the last forty years, noting how their texts represent alternative ways of relating to national and, on occasion, Western cultures. This study is a new attempt to map writers' diverse ways of thinking about locality and universality from within and without what is known as the canon.