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  • Life and Deeds of the Famous Gentleman Don Catrín de la Fachenda

    An MLA Translation

    Translated by Bonnie Loder ...
    by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ...
    Series Book 37 - Texts and Translations
    Don Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; ... Read more

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    by Jorge Luis Borges ...
    Translated by Anthony Bonner ...
    “These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.” —The Atlantic MonthlyThe seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century.Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    Translated by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux ...
    **"One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasA Penguin Classic**The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who ... Read more

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  • Dom Casmurro

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    Translated by John A. Gledson ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    Like other great nineteenth century novels--The Scarlet Letter, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary--Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro explores the themes of marriage and adultery. But what distinguishes Machado's novel and what makes it such a delightful discovery for English-speaking readers, is its eccentric and wildly unpredictable narrative style. As he recounts the events of his life from the vantage ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Gregory Rabassa ...
    Series series Library of Latin America
    "Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas. But while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. By turns flippant and profound, ... Read more

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  • The Alienist

    by Machado De Assis ...
    Series series The Art of the Novella
    A classic work of literature by “the greatest author ever produced in Latin America.” (Susan Sontag)Brilliant physician Simão Bacamarte sacrifices a prestigious career to return home and dedicate himself to the budding field of psychology. Bacamarte opens the first asylum in Brazil hoping to crown himself and his hometown with “imperishable laurels.” But the doctor begins to see signs of insanity ... Read more

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  • The First Filipino

    The Award-Winning Biography of Jose Rizal

    by Leon Ma. Guerrero ...
    Jose Rizal is the national hero of The Philippines. The First Filipino is the award-winning biography. It was awarded the first prize in the Rizal Centennial biography competition. The author is Ambassador Leon Ma. Guerrero, who also translated the widely-acclaimed translations of Rizal's novels, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.Painstakingly researched and referenced, this is a standard text ... Read more

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  • Goya

    by Robert Hughes ...
    Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The Culture of Complaint), now turns his renowned critical eye to one of art history’s most compelling, ... Read more

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  • Facundo

    Or, Civilization and Barbarism

    by Domingo F. Sarmiento ...
    Translated by Mary Peabody Mann ...
    Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de ... Read more

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  • The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis

    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson ...
    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis ...
    New York Times Critics’ Best of the YearA landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis finally appear in English for the first time in this extraordinary new translation.Widely acclaimed as the progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction, Machado de Assis (1839–1908)—the son of a mulatto father and a washerwoman, and the grandson of freed slaves—was hailed in his lifetime as ... Read more

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  • Complete Works and Other Stories

    by Augusto Monterroso ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion.This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otros cuentos] 1959) ... Read more

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  • A Pocket Mirror for Heroes

    by Baltasar Gracian ...
    Translated by Christopher Maurer ...
    A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can aspire. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian was all but forgotten for three hundred years, until its ... Read more

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