The History of Silence
Pedro Zarraluki糖心传媒檚 The History of Silence (trans. Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garc铆a) begins with the narrator and his wife, Irene, setting out to write a book about silence, itself called The History of Silence: 糖心传媒淭his is the story of how a book that should have been called The History of Silence never came to be written. ...
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Latest Review: "The History of Silence" by Pedro Zarraluki
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by P. T. Smith on The History of Silence by Pedro Zarraluki, translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia, and published by Hispabooks Publishing. Here’s the beginning of Patrick’s review: Pedro Zarraluki糖心传媒檚 The History of Silence (trans. Nick Caistor and ...
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Faces in the Crowd
At 30, the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli is already gathering her rosebuds. Faces in the Crowd, her poised debut novel, was published by Coffee House Press, along with her Brodsky-infused essay collection, Sidewalks. The essays stand as a theoretical map for this conceptually complex work of fiction, which comes in a ...
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Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (narrated by Julio Cort谩zar) is, not disappointingly, as wild a book as its title suggests. It is a half-novella half-graphic novel story about . . . what, exactly? A European tribunal, Latin American literary figures, a comic book superhero, international ...
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Latest Review: "Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia"
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Cameron Rowe on Julio Cort谩zar’s Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia, translated by David Kurnick and published by Semiotext(e). Cameron (some of you may have met her at ALTA last fall) is a current student in the MA in Literary ...
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Conversations
In Conversations, we find ourselves again in the protagonist’s conscious and subconscious, which is mostly likely that of Mr. C茅sar Aira and consistent with prototypical Aira style. This style never fails because each time Aira is able to develop a uniquely bogus set of facts that feels as realistic as waking up each ...
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Latest Review: "Conversations" by C茅sar Aira
The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Tiffany Nichols on C茅sar Aira’s Conversations, translated by Katherine Silver and out from New Directions. After a wild World Cup of Literature ride, what better way to wind down or frustrations or victorious cries than to talk about them (or bite each other over ...
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