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Antonio Muñoz Molina - In Her Absence 2007-09-03 08:58:00 Three reviews of Antonio Muñoz Molina's In Her Absence. Several years ago Antonio Muñoz Molina was described as "a Spanish writer laden with prizes and so far scandalously unknown in English." His awards include not one but two Spanish National Narrative Prizes, and he is the youngest-ever member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Despite these honors from his native country and 13 books published in ...

Edmundo Paz Soldán - Turing's Delirium 2007-09-03 05:06:00 Olga Lorenzo reviews Edmundo Paz Soldán's Turing's Delirium. In 1967, the world received Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, set in an unspecified country in the mythical town of Macondo. For many Latin American writers, the result has been 40 years of feeling pressured to produce and reproduce magic realism of the decades-of-tiresome-rain and ...

Roberto Bolaño - Amulet 2007-08-10 11:42:00 Roberto Ontiveros reviews Roberto Bolaño's Amulet. Amulet’s prose is not instructive or pushy. Bolaño wryly and blithely accepts the demands of art. Art wants every damn thing and may offer back only the understanding that it needs every damn thing. Amulet seeks not to subvert, but to find waspy succor in the recognitions of art’s unchanging burden. Amulet and the yearning represented in its ...

Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detectives 2007-08-09 05:26:00 Chad Walsh reviews Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives. In three parts, Bolano writes of a "gang" of poets, led by Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, who invite an impressionable law student named Juan Garcia Madero to join their underground poetry movement, the Visceral Realists. The Visceral Realists aim to rescue poetry from the "peasant" movement and reclaim it with the rhythms of the street ... Detectives

According to EuskalKultura.com the Basque writers ... 2007-08-08 05:10:00 According to EuskalKultura.com the Basque writers Bernardo Atxaga, Rikardo Arregi and Miren Agur Meabe will present the book Six Basque Poets at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The book is a poetic anthology compiled by Mari Jose Olaziregi and translated into English by Miren Gabantxo that gathers poems by Bernardo Atxaga, Rikardo Arregi, Felipe Juaristi, Miren Agur Meabe, Kirmen ...

In Her Absence - Antonio Muñoz Molina 2007-08-08 04:40:00 Nick Antosca reviews Antonio Muñoz Molina's "In Her Absence". Unconditional romantic love can be a particularly subtle and damaging form of masochism. As the act of gamely rationalizing away flaws in the character of one's beloved becomes a daily ritual, one's misery and devotion increase by equal measure. The absolute best way to make the whole experience more excruciating is, of course, to get ...

Pablo Ramos - Interview 2007-08-07 05:30:00 Two interviews with Argentine writer Pablo Ramos, who has just published a new novel - La Ley de la Ferocidad. Para mí fue una novela necesaria, no pude no haberla escrito. Me tuve que mostrar el infierno para mostrarme que tengo una puerta de salida; está dirigida a cualquier lector, pero aquel que estuvo en un infierno parecido la va a leer de otra manera. Y el tipo al final tiene una salida, ...

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño 2007-08-06 06:24:00 Jonathan Gibbs reviews Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives. Roberto Bolaño was a Chilean poet and author who grew up in the years after the Latin American boom that put Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa on the international stage. He achieved some notoriety as a young long-haired poet in Mexico City in the early 1970s, but it was only after emigrating to Europe, and turning to ... Detectives

Mezcal - Directed by Ignacio Ortiz 2007-08-06 06:19:00 There's a saying that people here use when knocking back a shot of mescal, the spirit distilled from the agave plant with a fiery sting like the devil's own pitchfork: "Para todo mal, mescal. Para todo bien, también." For everything bad, mescal -- and for everything good, as well. Malcolm Lowry, the British author whose 1947 novel "Under the Volcano" is easily the best book ever written about ...

An article on the new generation of Latin American... 2007-08-06 05:12:00 An article on the new generation of Latin American novelist and movie directors, whith special focus on Mexico. Del ruido de un ‘boom’ al sonido de un ‘crack’ van unos cuantos decibeles. En la literatura, sin embargo, va toda una visión de mundo y una manera diferente de novelar. Los escritores del ‘boom’ -y muchos de sus precursores- le descubrieron al mundo cómo era el ser latinoamericano en ...

Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal has been propose... 2007-08-01 06:27:00 Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal has been proposed as candidate to the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his poetic creation translated into 20 languages. Please visit SPLALit aStore Nicaraguan Literature ...

Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska will receive tomo... 2007-08-01 06:21:00 Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska will receive tomorrow the XV Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos (Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Award)in Venezuela. Please visit SPLALit aStore Mexican Literature ...

Carlos Fuentes on Frida Kahlo 2007-08-01 06:14:00 El escritor mexicano Carlos Fuentes recordó a Frida Kahlo como "una Cleopatra quebrada" en un catálogo especial sobre la pintora publicado como complemento de una magna exposición que conmemora el centenario del nacimiento de la artista, informaron hoy autoridades culturales de México. En un comunicado, el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) resaltó la visión de Fuentes entre las decenas ...

The Past by Alan Pauls 2007-07-26 06:00:00 Sophie Ratcliffe reviews Alan Pauls' The Past.We first meet the hero of Alan Pauls's novel fresh out of the shower. He's standing on the pavement, groin covered by a hand towel, trying to sign for a recorded delivery letter. It's an uncomfortable position, but, by the standards of this novel, a relatively clean one. Set in Argentina, and translated from the Spanish, The Past follows Rimini, a ...

Alan Pauls - The Past 2007-07-23 05:26:00 Ben Bollig reviews Alan Pauls' The Past. The past, Alan Pauls' first novel to be translated into English, has arrived with a certain amount of fanfare - including a film adaptation starring Gael Garcia Bernal, an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival and critical comparisons to Proust and Nabokov. Like Proust's epic, The Past is about memory. A twentysomething Buenos Aires couple, Rimini and ...