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  • The Tangled Thread

    A Novel in Dialogue

    by Sofía Casanova ...
    Translated by Méghan Elizabeth Hodges ...
    Newlyweds Álvaro and Blanca vacation with two other couples on the northern coast of France, where misunderstandings, trickery, and flirtations ensue. Álvaro wants a cosmopolitan life full of travel and excitement, but the more traditional Blanca yearns for stability. Meanwhile, Blanca's former suitor the Marqués de Alqueriz pursues an affair with the liberated (and married) American Lady ... Read more

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    Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) is Latin America’s best known and, for many, greatest poet. He was also perhaps its most controversial. Adored by readers the world over for the sumptuous love lyrics penned during his early years in his native Chile, and revered by fellow poets and literary critics for the dark, hypnotic verse he composed during his lonely years as a diplomat in the Far East, his later ... Read more

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  • Seven Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges

    by Fernando Sorrentino, Clark M. Zlotchew ...
    These wide-ranging conversations have an exceptionally open and intimate tone, giving us a personal glimpse of one of the most fascinating figures in contemporary world literature.Interviewer Fernando Sorrentino, an Argentinian writer and anthologist, is endowed with literary acumen, sensitivity, urbanity, and an encyclopedic memory of Jorge Luis Borges' work (in his prologue, Borges jokes that ... Read more

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  • The Queen of Swords

    by Jazmina Barrera ...
    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
    In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera’s deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.Sifting through the writer’s archives at Princeton, Barrera is repeatedly thwarted in her attempt to fully know her subject. Traditional means of research—the correspondence, photos, and books ... Read more

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  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years

    by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll, Ilan Stavans ...
    “Cognizant of his impending death, Piglia, the Argentine titan of letters who died of A.L.S. in January, prepared his 327 notebooks for publication in a trilogy…. Splendidly crafted and interspliced with essays and stories, this beguiling work is to a diary as Piglia is to 'Emilio Renzi': a lifelong alter ego, a highly self-conscious shadow volume that brings to bear all of Piglia’s prowess as it ... Read more

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  • Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia

    Edited by María Claudia André, Eva Paulino Bueno ...
    Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or Portuguese, and who have had an impact on literary, political, and social studies.Focusing on drama, ... Read more

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  • Pillar of Salt

    An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets

    by Salvador Novo ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Literature in Translation Series
    The renowned writer describes coming of age during the violent Mexican Revolution and living as an openly homosexual man in a brutally machista society.Salvador Novo (1904–1974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. With his friend and fellow poet Xavier Villaurrutia, he cofounded Ulises and Contemporáneos, landmark avant-garde ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa

    by Sabine Köllmann ...
    This companion to the work of Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa traces his fictional and non-fictional writing throughout the different phases of a career spanning more than fifty years. His lifelong dedication to literature goes hand in hand with his commitment as a public intellectual, a role that frequently involves him in controversy. Against the backdrop of Vargas Llosa's political ... Read more

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  • Becoming Reinaldo Arenas

    Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution

    by Jorge Olivares ...
    Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution; he produced much of his work amid political controversy and precarious living conditions. In ... Read more

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    An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction

    by Valerie Miles ...
    Featuring 28 extremely influential Spanish-language authors, each of whom selected the "ultimate highlights" of his or her writing career. ... Read more

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  • The Face of Emotion: 35 Years of Literary and Scientific Life (1987-2022)

    by A. Freitas-Magalhães ...
    Series series Academic and Science Series
    Science and Literature are the two caravels in the sea of human knowledge, and I'm the one to guilty for this life of emotions, defends Prof. Freitas-Magalhães, the world's leading expert for Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology and the Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, by Elsevier, Oxford, in in his new and extraordinary book celebrating 35 years of Literary and Scientific Life. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry

    Edited by Stephen M. Hart ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Poetry provides historical context on the evolution of the Latin American poetic tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. It is organized into three parts. Part I provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of Latin American poetry and includes separate chapters on Colonial poetry, Romanticism/modernism, the avant-garde, conversational ... Read more

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