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Immanent Visitorby Jaime Saenz; Kent Johnson; Forrest Gander
University of California Press 2002; US$ 26.95Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, a denizen of slum taverns, unashamedly bisexual, insistently nocturnal in his artistic affairs, and secretive in his leadership of a select group of writers, Saenz mixed the mystical and baroque with the fantastic, the psychological, and the symbolic. In masterly translations by two poet-translators, Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander, Saenz's strange, innovative, and wildly lyrical poems reveal a literary legacy of fierce compassion and solidarity... more...
Queer Mother for the Nationby Licia Fiol-Matta
University of Minnesota Press 2002; US$ 60.00A Queer Mother for the Nation weaves a nuanced understanding of how Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, cooperated with authority and fashioned herself as the figure of Motherhood in collaboration with the state. more...
Gabriel Garcia Marquezby Susan Muaddi Darraj
Infobase Publishing 2006; US$ 30.00These riveting personalities each achieved excellence, but even greater than their individual accomplishments is the positive Hispanic image they collectively represent to the world. Photographs, illustrations, and lively text tell the stories ot these fascinating historical figures. more...
Literary Memoirsby Jose Victorino Lastarria; R. Kelly Washbourne; Frederick M. Nunn
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 8.95Novelist, scholar, journalist, statesman, and leading member of Chile's "Generation of 1842"--an intellectual movement so named for the founding of the National University--Jose Victorino Lastarria (1811-1888) lived his life at the forefront of nineteenth-century Chilean and Spanish American culture, literature, and politics. Recuerdos Literarios (or Literary Memoirs) is his masterpiece, encompassing the candid memories of a tireless activist, both the creative and critical sensibilities of an influential Latin American early modernist, and an eyewitness account of the development of Chilean literature and historiography. An ardent, eloquent participant in every defining artistic and ideological debate in Chile during the formative... more...
Madwomenby Gabriela Mistral; Randall Couch
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 18.00A schoolteacher whose poetry catapulted her to early fame in her native Chile and an international diplomat whose boundary-defying sexuality still challenges scholars, Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in Latin American literature of the last century. The Locas mujeres poems collected here are among Mistral’s most complex and compelling, exploring facets of the self in extremis —poems marked by the wound of blazing catastrophe and its aftermath of mourning. From disquieting humor to balladlike lyricism to folkloric wisdom, these pieces enact a tragic sense of life, depicting “madwomen” who are anything... more...
Among the Angels of Memoryby Marjorie Agosin; Laura Nakazawa
Wings Press 2006; US$ 11.95This bilingual (facing-page English and Spanish) poetry collection documents the Jewish-Chilean-American author's search for remnants of her grandmother's life during the Holocaust in Prague and Vienna, and later in Chile. Esta recopilación bilingüe de poesíauna página en inglés con la página opuesta en españoldocumenta la búsqueda de la autora judía chileno-americana de vestigios de la vida de su bisabuela durante el Holocausto en Praga y Viena, y después en Chile. more...
Roberto Bolano: The Last Interviewby Roberto Bolano; Marcela Valdes
Melville House 2010; US$ 14.95With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s last. Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaño’s final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is “a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of... more...
Representación histórica en la obra de Gabriel García Márquezby Melanie Cebrián
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 35.39El premio Nobel Gabriel García Márquez es uno de los escritores más destacados de nuestro tiempo. En sus novelas Cien años de soledad, El general en su laberinto y Noticia de un secuestro, la presencia de la historia es sin duda el elemento más importante. Cien años de soledad es una "nueva novela" que mezcla lo real-histórico con el mundo mítico, mientras que El general en su laberinto es una novela histórica y biográfica con el protagonista Simón Bolívar. En Noticia de un secuestro, García Márquez regresa a sus orígenes y recupera el reportaje refiriéndose a fuentes que prueban que su novela-reportaje cuenta la pura verdad sobre la realidad asustante colombiana, aunque los límites entre realidad y ficción no estén siempre muy claros. El presente... more...
Pablo Nerudaby Dominic Moran
Reaktion Books 2009; US$ 20.95In Pablo Neruda, Moran takes a detailed and often critical look at the poet's life and work focusing as much on what the poetry sometimes strategically hides about Neruda the poet, the lover, and the political proselytizer, as what it reveals. more...
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitudeby Michael Wood
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 27.00One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. more...









