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131 produkter
Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Häftad, 1976
283 kr
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Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in …
Recollections of Things to Come
Av Elena Garro
Häftad, 1969
445 kr
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This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Elena Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a …
Barren Lives
Häftad, 1965
283 kr
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A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to move on, homeless wanderers again. Yet, like …
American Extremes
Extremos De América
Häftad, 1964
285 kr
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In this notable collection of essays, written in the middle of the twentieth century, a towering Mexican thinker discusses both Latin America's internal problems and its relations with the United States, Russia, and the rest of the world. This perceptive examination of many political and economic …
Mexico in Its Novel
A Nation's Search for Identity
Häftad, 1972
384 kr
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Mexico in Its Novel is a perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel. The author presents the Mexican novel as a cultural phenomenon: a manifestation of the impact of history upon the nation, an attempt by a people to come to grips with and understand what …
Political Evolution of the Mexican People
Av Justo Sierra
Häftad, 1966
461 kr
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Are the Mexican people the children of Moctezuma or the children of CortÉs? This question, long the central problem of Mexican historians, Justo Sierra answered by saying, "The Mexicans are the sons of the two peoples, of the two races … to this we owe our soul." Because Sierra recognized the dual …
Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico
Av Samuel Ramos
Häftad, 1963
277 kr
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Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico, originally written in 1934, is addressed to the author’s compatriots, but it speaks to people, wherever they are, who are interested in enriching their own lives and in elevating the cultural level of their countries. And it speaks with a peculiar timeliness to …
Edge of the Storm
A Novel
Häftad, 1963
416 kr
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This tale of a repressive priest and his small Mexican village during the eighteen months preceding the Revolution of 1910 is a great novel, one that exposes the struggle between human desire and paralyzing fear-fear of humanity, fear of nature, fear of the wrath of God. AgustÍn YÁÑez probes the …
Ariel
Häftad, 1988
237 kr
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"Irritating, insufferable, admirable, stimulating, disappointing RodÓ: . . . you are part of our family quarrels, and must bear with your disrespectful, equally disappointed, intuitive, incomplete nephews, living in a world that you helped define for us, and offered unto our revolt." -from the …
Alejo Carpentier
The Pilgrim at Home
Av Roberto González Echevarría
Häftad, 1991
384 kr
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Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, as well as a musicologist, journalist, cultural promoter, and diplomat. His fictional world issues from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history, art, music, and literature of Latin America and Europe. …
Sab and Autobiography
Av Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga
Häftad, 1993
264 kr
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Eleven years before Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the fires of abolition in North America, an aristocratic Cuban woman told an impassioned story of the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter. So controversial was Sab's theme of miscegenation and its parallel between the …
Senhora
Profile of a Woman
Häftad, 1994
286 kr
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged . . ." that a single woman in possession of a good character but no fortune must be in want of a wealthy husband-that is, if she is the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel. Senhora, by contrast, turns the tables on this familiar plot. Its strong-willed, …
Bolívar and the War of Independence
Memorias Del General Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Narración
Häftad, 1970
470 kr
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The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man-SimÓn BolÍvar. BolÍvar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them …
Barbarous Mexico
Häftad, 1969
402 kr
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American historians preoccupied with the stirring events of the Mexican Revolution and the years following tend to neglect the basic causes of the conflict. John Kenneth Turner-a crusading California newspaperman-presents these causes with brilliance and passion in Barbarous Mexico, his exposÉ of …
Bow and the Lyre
The Poem, the Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History
Av Octavio Paz
Häftad, 1973
367 kr
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In The Bow and the Lyre Octavio Paz, one of the most important poets writing in Spanish, presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives. It is written in the same prose style that distinguishes The Labyrinth of Solitude. …
Borges and His Fiction
A Guide to His Mind and Art
Häftad, 2000
411 kr
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From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest...writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical clichÉs, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master-from …
Jarano
Av Ramón Beteta
Häftad, 1970
234 kr
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RamÓn Beteta was an important figure in Mexican life: politician, Cabinet member, diplomat, economist, professor, journalist. The manuscript of Jarano was found among his papers after his death in 1965 and was published in Mexico in 1966. "Jarano," the kind of broad sombrero worn by charros, was …
Confabulario and Other Inventions
Häftad, 1964
297 kr
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This biting commentary on the follies of humankind by a noted Mexican author cuts deeply yet leaves readers laughing-at themselves as well as at others. With his surgical intelligence, Juan JosÉ Arreola exposes the shams and hypocrisies, the false values and vices, the hidden diseases of society. …
CIA in Guatemala
The Foreign Policy of Intervention
Häftad, 1982
340 kr
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Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and …
Cartucho and My Mother's Hands
Häftad, 1988
251 kr
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Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael MuÑoz and Gregorio LÓpez y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two …
Xicoténcatl
An Anonymous Historical Novel About the Events Leading Up to the Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Häftad, 1999
253 kr
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As Spain's New World colonies fought for their independence in the early nineteenth century, an anonymous author looked back on the earlier struggle of native Americans against the Spanish conquistadores and penned this novel, XicotÉncatl. Writing from a decidedly anti-Spanish perspective, the …
Norther
Häftad, 1968
253 kr
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Recognized in Mexico as one of the country's most important contemporary dramatists, Emilio Carballido has only recently become known in other countries through his plays and short stories. This translation introduces Carballido as a novelist. In The Norther what makes and breaks human …
Who If I Cry Out
Häftad, 1967
315 kr
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Three months to live. JosÉ Maria, a contemplative engineer in late middle age, and now a victim of leukemia, has received a death sentence from his doctor. His life has been a frustrating nonfulfillment of his early hopes, and his musings are many and varied as his life wanes. The Brazilian writer …
Devil's Church and Other Stories
Av Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Häftad, 1977
253 kr
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The modem Brazilian short story begins with the mature work of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's greatest writer. Collectively, these nineteen stories are representative of Machado's unique style and world view, and this translation doubles the …
Dreamtigers
Häftad, 1964
218 kr
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Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal …
Iphigenia
(the Diary of a Young Lady Who Wrote Because She Was Bored)
Häftad, 1994
465 kr
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Winner, Harvey L. Johnson Award, Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, 1994"...I didn't want to tell you the truth for anything in the world, because it seemed very humiliating to me..." The truth is that Iphigenia is bored and, more than bored, buried alive in her grandmother's house in …
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers
Five Voices
Häftad, 1996
384 kr
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Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina, Brianda Domecq, Carmen Boullosa, and Angeles Mastretta. Sharing a range of affinities while maintaining …
Fragmented Novel in Mexico
The Politics of Form
Häftad, 1997
384 kr
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From Mariano Azuela's 1915 novel Los de abajo to RosamarÍa Roffiel's Amora of 1989, fragmented narrative has been one of the defining features of innovative Mexican fiction in the twentieth century. In this innovative study, Carol Clark D'Lugo examines fragmentation as a literary strategy that …
Shattered Mirror
Representations of Women in Mexican Literature
Häftad, 1998
384 kr
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Popular images of women in Mexico-conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and television-were long restricted to either the stereotypically submissive wife and mother or the demonized fallen woman. But new representations of women and their roles in Mexican society have shattered the …
Prophet in the Wilderness
The Works of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Häftad, 1971
318 kr
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A universal test of great writers is the quality of their response to the human dilemma. Prophet in the Wilderness traces the development of that response in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel MartÍnez Estrada, from the first ambitious poems to its definitive expression in the essays and …
