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What's waiting to be translated. Rebecca Milzoff ... 2007-06-11 06:08:00 What's waiting to be translated. Rebecca Milzoff has some suggestions. Special attention to Mexican Daniel Sada’s Porque Parece Mentira la Verdad Nunca Se Sabe, Argentine Marcelo Cohen’s El Fin de lo Mismo and Cuban and Ena Lucía Portela’s Cien Botellas en una Pared. Please visit SPLALit aStore Latin American ...

Alberto Manguel - Reading Diary: A Year of Favourite Books 2007-06-11 06:03:00 Jane Sullivan reviews Alberto Manguel's Reading Diary. The essayist and novelist Alberto Manguel is one of those increasingly rare beings who live their lives steeped in books. What is even rarer is that he has the gift of passing on his enthusiasm. A few years ago, he re-read a few of his favourite books and was struck by the way their worlds of the past seemed to reflect the "dismal chaos" of ...

Edmundo Paz Soldán - Interview 2007-06-06 05:52:00 Los Tiempos interviews Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz Soldán on his new novel Palacio Quemado. Palacio Quemado puede no ser lo que verdaderamente ocurrió en el gobierno de Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, pero es ese el reto, el que al leer la novela uno pueda decir esto pudo haber sido así. Please visit SPLALit aStore Bolivian ...

Alejandro Zambra - Interview 2007-06-06 05:31:00 Página/12 interviews Alejandro Zambra, one of the Bogotá 39 writers, about Bonsái, his first novel. Quería escribir un libro que se llamara así porque tenía esa imagen en la cabeza, la de un hombre que se encierra en un cuarto a cuidar un bonsái y se enajena; prefiere cuidar un bonsái a escribir, prefiere cuidar un bonsái a vivir ...

Roberto Bolaño - El Secreto del Mal and La Universidad Desconocida 2007-06-06 05:03:00 Rodrigo Fresán reviews Roberto Bolaño's El secreto del mal and La Universidad Desconocida. “La literatura se parece mucho a la pelea de los samuráis, pero un samurái no pelea contra otro samurái: pelea contra un monstruo. Generalmente sabe, además, que va a ser derrotado. Tener el valor, sabiendo previamente que vas a ser derrotado, y salir a pelear: eso es la literatura”, definió Roberto Bolaño ...

Mario Vargas Llosa - The Temptation of the Impossible 2007-06-05 04:18:00 Diane Scharper reviews Mario Vargas Llosa's essay book The Temptation of the Impossible. Known to Americans primarily as the author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is considered France's greatest poet and one of its greatest prose writers. Hugo's stature, according to The Temptation of the Impossible by Mario Vargas Llosa, is due mainly to the impact of ...

Mayra Montero - Dancing to 'Almendra' 2007-06-04 08:29:00 Lois D. Atwood reviews Cecilia Samartin's Broken Paradise and Mayra Montero's Dancing to 'Almendra'. In these two novels, life in the tropical paradise of Cuba has fallen apart under either totalitarian or communist rule. Dancing to ‘Almendra’ is set in Batista’s Havana, where gangsters run all the casinos; Broken Paradise on the idyllic island whose society Castro is restructuring. Dancing . . ...

Mario Vargas Llosa - Touchstones: Essays in Literature, Art and Politics 2007-06-01 05:12:00 Ian Thomson reviews Mario Vargas Llosa's Touchstones: Essays in Literature, Art and Politics. With this marvellous new collection of essays, Touchstones, Vargas Llosa takes his place alongside the Mexican Carlos Fuentes and the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez as a Latin with a civic conscience. The book gathers an impressive array of articles on Latin American politics, European writers and ...

Tomás Eloy Martínez tells the story of the public... 2007-05-30 06:12:00 Tomás Eloy Martínez tells the story of the publication of Gabriel García Márquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude. Agosto de 1967 fue el mes que cambió la vida de Gabriel García Márquez. Había cumplido 40 años el 6 de marzo de ese año, y en septiembre anterior había puesto punto final a Cien años de soledad, su novela de gloria. Todavía no tenía editor. Lo más probable era que terminara ...

Reading Others 2007-05-29 05:52:00 Reading impressions on Alberto Manguel's A Reading Diary at Entertaining Research. A book certainly worth checking out; you might even buy yourself a copy, hunt down the books that Manguel notes in the diary, read them, and compare your reactions with that of his (provided you have enough time and inclination). Please ...

Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta, author of the nov... 2007-05-28 05:42:00 Chilean writer Antonio Skármeta, author of the novels El cartero de Pablo Neruda (The Postman), La boda del poeta (The Poet’s Wedding) and La chica de trombon (The Girl with the Trobone), just presented a new book Borges y otras historias de amor in Rome. Please visit SPLALit aStore Chilean Literature ...

Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detectives 2007-05-25 05:32:00 Andrew Riemer reviews Roberto Bolaño's The Savage Detectives. I spent a good bit of time googling the names of some of the hundreds of Latin American poets who snake their way through this preposterous but strangely appealing novel. Setting aside one or two world-famous figures like Octavio Paz, the results were almost always zilch - or links to various sites concerning Bolano's book. I began to ... Detectives

Miranda France reviews Roberto Bolaño's Last Eveni... 2007-05-24 03:41:00 Miranda France reviews Roberto Bolaño's Last Evenings on Earth. Visiting Chile in the mid-1990s, I was amazed by the ubiquity of poets. They loitered on the streets, wearing tweed jackets and caps in imitation of their icon, Pablo Neruda, and for a few coins they would sell you a poem, or write one to order. Poets also abound in the fiction of the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, but here they are ...

A review of Alejandro Dolina's Crónicas del Ángel ... 2007-05-21 08:38:00 A review of Alejandro Dolina's Crónicas del Ángel Gris ("Chronicles of the Gray Angel"). ?Crónicas del Ángel Gris? es el primer libro que escribió ?El negro? Dolina. A mi modo de ver es uno de los grandes libros argentinos del siglo XX que une popularidad con calidad y entretenimiento. No solo ha vendido una gran cantidad de ejemplares, lo que lo ha convertido en un best-seller sino que ha ...

Mauro Javier Cardenas reviews Javier Cercas' The S... 2007-05-21 05:24:00 Mauro Javier Cardenas reviews Javier Cercas' The Speed of Light. In Javier Cercas' previous novel, the affecting and widely honored "Soldiers of Salamis," a narrator named Javier Cercas chronicles his attempt to write a true story about a small episode in the Spanish Civil War. Through the recollections of an ensemble of Spaniards, Cercas returns to this episode often, wondering why a soldier of ...