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Enrique Vila-Matas - Bartleby & Co. and Montano's Malady. 2007-07-23 05:22:00 Roberto Ontiveros reviews Enrique Vila-Matas' Bartleby & Co. and Montano's Malady.Enrique Vila-Matas writes novels about those who can't write, those who can write but choose not to and those who wrote until they woke up one day and discovered they no longer could. His book "Bartleby & Co." is a respectful devotion to all who engage in the grand "No" of literature, who spurn the static word for ... Amp

Mexican Writers on Writing edited by Margaret Sayers Peden 2007-07-23 05:14:00 Edward Hirsch reviews a new collection of Mexican texts, Mexican Writers on Writing edited by Margaret Sayers Peden The history of Mexican literature, at least of that written in the Spanish language, begins during the Conquest with "chronicles and letters," explains Margaret Sayers Peden, "a fascinating body of materials in which their authors report, not infrequently with exaggeration, their ...

Pablo de Santis - Interview 2007-07-17 10:25:00 Los escritores somos especialistas en todo y en nada. Construimos ilusiones de conocimiento, tomamos de la realidad algo y vamos construyendo con eso una manera de conocimiento inventado. Así, un poco con las astillas de la historia y los mapas del París real armé un París de fábula. Tomo lo que me sirve para la historia, no me gustan las informaciones inútiles, sólo aquello que es expresivo, lo ...

Mexican writer Juan Hernández Luna won the Hammett... 2007-07-13 06:12:00 Mexican writer Juan Hernández Luna won the Hammett Prize, during the "Semana Negra de Gijón" (Gijón's Dark Week) for best Crime Novel written in Spanish with "Cadáveres de ciudad", a dark story set in Mexico City. Cuban author Amir Valle won the Rofolfo Walsh prize for the best nonfiction work with his book "Jineteras", where he draws up a crude image on prostitution in Havana. ...

Malta con Huevo - Trailer 2007-07-12 08:38:00 Malta con Huevo was directed by Cristóbal Valderrama and produced by Alberto Fuguet. Please visit SPLALit aStore Chilean Cinema ...

Peruvian writer Alonso Cueto (Lima, 1954) presents... 2007-07-12 04:28:00 Peruvian writer Alonso Cueto (Lima, 1954) presents, in Colombia, his new novel "El susurro de la mujer ballena". La obra, finalista del Premio Planeta-Casa de América, relata la historia de dos amigas radicalmente opuetas que reviven los años del colegio. "La pared era mi único consuelo, ¿sabes? A veces me daba por escribir algo en la pared, y lo borraba. Escribía por ejemplo 'Mierda mierda ...

Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detectives and The Last Evenings on Earth 2007-07-03 08:10:00 Ben Richards reviews Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth and The Savage Detectives The poet's troubled odyssey is the dominant theme of both Last Evenings and Bolano's novel The Savage Detectives (both brilliantly translated). The latter begins in the 1970s in Mexico City, where two poets - Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima - are leading a literary movement called visceral realism. The first ... Detectives

Roberto Bolaño 2007-07-03 05:50:00 Francisco Goldman reviews Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives, Distant Star, Last Evenings on Earth and 2666. "A writer's patria or country, as someone said, is his language. That sounds pretty demagogic, but I completely agree with him...." That is from Roberto Bolaño's acceptance speech for the 1999 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, an award given by the government of Venezuela for the best ...

Nada by Carmen Laforet 2007-07-03 05:26:00 Alberto Manguel reviews Carmen Laforet's Nada. During my adolescence, in the Buenos Aires of the 60s, my friends and I believed that the only worthy literature in Spanish was written in Latin America, an arrogant opinion that seemed confirmed by the wealth of the writers brought on by the so-called boom, such as Julio Cortazar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The literature of Spain, smothered by the ...

Carmen Boullosa 2007-06-20 05:55:00 Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa presents her new novel in Madrid. El Velázquez de París is the second part of the trilogy started with La otra mano de Lepanto, were she approaches the disappearance of a linen cloth of the Spanish painter and the ethics of the artist as a witness of his time. Los atentados del 11-S dieron pie a Carmen Boullosa a escribir "La otra mano de Lepanto" , donde ofrece ...

Javier Cercas - Interview 2007-06-18 05:14:00 Richard Lea interviews Spanish novelist Javier Cercas. An interview with a writer as artful as Javier Cercas is filled with traps for the unwary, beset by pitfalls for the unprepared. The literary interview is a territory the Spanish novelist explores at length in his international bestseller, Soldiers of Salamis, in which he drives the plot with a pair of fictional interviews considerably more ...

Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detectives 2007-06-18 05:05:00 Horacio Castellanos Moya reviews Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives. Nine years ago publication of "The Savage Detectives" catapulted Chilean novelist Roberto Bolano into literary prominence both in Spain and Latin America. That year Bolano also received the major Spanish language literary awards, the Herralde Prize in Barcelona, and the Romulo Gallegos Prize in Caracas. Now, thanks to the ... Detectives

Latin American Bibliography #2 2007-06-15 09:09:00 Paradiso by José Lezama Lima First published in Cuba in 1966, where its the publication caused huge controversy. Paradiso was hailed as a masterpiece of contemporary literature. Paradiso is the coming-of-age story of Jose Cemi at the turn of the century Cuba. José Lezama Lima born in Havana, Cuba, on December 19, 1910, is a major Latin-American literary figure. ...

Latin American Bibliography #1 2007-06-15 08:33:00 Los Arrieros del Agua by Carlos Navarrete. His 1985 novel Los Arrieros del Agua (The Water Carriers) tells the story of Reinaldo, a men with a thousand skills, cruising the plateau that between Chiapas with Guatemala. This novel is often compared to Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo. Carlos Navarrete was born in January 29, 1931 in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, and lives in Mexico since 1952. He was ...

Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detectives 2007-06-11 06:19:00 Three new reviews of Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives. By Adrian Jiménez, Roberto Bolaño’s first full-length novel, The Savage Detectives, begins with the invitation to join a dying group of Mexican poets. First published in Spanish in 1998, the alluring novel has finally been published in English, translated by Natasha Wimmer. Bolaño, who died in 2003 in Spain at the age of fifty, is only ... Detectives