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Shakespeare's Hamlet-written 2,000 years after the classical Greek period-follows a narrative pattern similar to that of the Greek Electra myth, and it isn't the only story to do so. We see signs of Electra's influence again in the 20th-century works of Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neill and T.S. Eliot, among others. This revised and updated edition looks more closely at the influence of Electra on popular culture throughout history and the questions it...
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In "Studies in American Literature", D. H. Lawrence's brilliance as both a writer and a critic shimmers with energy and originality. His thought-provoking look at canonized American literature is a brazenly opinionated, unabashed, playfully irreverent examination of authors and works that have shaped the American literary imagination. His unyielding intellectual curiosity sheds new light on the grand tapestry of Walt Whitman's poetic vision, the daring...
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Evocación de un pasado remoto, entrelazamiento de voces y de recuerdos, fantasmas que frecuentan los pasillos de las viejas casas porteñas, amores frustrados, secretos inconfesables de familia, todo como si de una gran partitura se tratara. Ritmo y melodía de un lenguaje en deuda con la vocación musical del autor. Esta novela es el punto final de una obra lúdica y alucinada que desde siempre fue un misterio para el público y un reto para la...
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An enthralling debut, Above the Fire crystallizes the relationship between a father and son as they survive a winter of isolation. Perfect for fans of The Dog Stars by Peter Heller and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Laboring under a shared loss, Doug and his young son, Tim, set out on a late season backpacking trip through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. They find beauty and solidarity in the outdoors, making friends along the trail, and falling...
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Steve Tomasula is a novelist like no other; his experiments in narrative and design have won him a loyal following. Exemplifying Tomasulas style, IN & OZ is a heady, avant-garde book, rooted in convincing characters even as it simultaneously subverts the genre of novel and moves it forward.
IN & OZ is a novel of art, love, and auto mechanics. The story follows five different characters - an auto designer, photographer, musical composer, poet/sculptor,...
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A devout woman finds herself adrift in late 19th century Central America in this novel of "deep imagination, stylistic verve, and psychological acuity" (The Washington Post).
Set in late nineteenth century Central America and New York City, The Divine Husband tells the story of María de las Nieves Moran, whose brief career as a nun is ended in the wake of revolution. Forced to make her way in the secular world, María is surrounded by an unforgettable...
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Cerrar las puertas de nuestra casa no siempre nos pone a salvo del peligro. A veces nos deja a solas con él. La indefensión se exacerba cuando la amenaza proviene de quien menos lo esperamos. Las interrogantes de siempre –¿qué hacer?, ¿dónde encontrar ayuda?– ya no tienen cabida. Las víctimas de Las lluvias de Estocolmo aprenderán, de la peor manera, que hay preguntas que tienen una sola respuesta y que no vale la pena ser formuladas....
11) Spies: A Novel
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From the bestselling author of Headlong, a mesmerizing novel about secrecy, imagination, and a child's game turned deadly earnest
The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime London. As he pieces together his scattered images, we are brought back to a quiet, suburan street where two boys, Keith and his sidekick-Stephen-are engaged in...
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1783. Rodrigo and Sancho Beltrán came to this Andean valley from Spain and found behind barred windows the beautiful twin sisters who were last in the line of the illustrious conquistador de Labastida. From his deathbed their father had sworn the sisters to spinsterhood and imprisoned them in his house rather than let them debase the ancient name or, worse still, pass on his wealth to local peasants. Spanish and noble, Rodrigo and Sancho married...
13) Zabelle: A Novel
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Zabelle begins in a suburb of Boston with the quiet death of Zabelle Chahasbanian, an elderly widow and grandmother whose history remains vastly unknown to her family. But as the story shifts back in time to Zabelle's childhood in the waning days of Ottoman Turkey, where she survives the 1915 Armenian genocide and near starvation in the Syrian desert, an unforgettable character begins to emerge. Zabelle's journey encompasses years in an Istanbul orphanage,...
14) Martin's Pond
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For years Martin has biked into the coastal hills to bask in solitude beside a remote pond. When a strange woman begins to visit 'his' refuge, Martin tries to scare her away ... but takes matters a step too far. "Martin's Pond" was first published in the literary magazine Five Fingers Review, issue #20, in Spring 2003.
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La ocasión de celebrar los cien años de nacimiento de Jorge López Páez ofrece a la Universidad Veracruzana la oportunidad de acercar a los lectores a un destacado miembro de la generación de la mitad del siglo XX mexicano, autor pionero de la temática homosexual (masculina) en la literatura nacional y uno de los autores iniciales de la histórica colección Ficción (UV). Para ello, esta casa de estudios ha publicado SIN GANAS EN GHANA Y OTROS...
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After dedicating his 20's to raising his two brothers and keeping to himself on the ancestral homestead, Cord Alastair fears he might have lost something else: a chance at a family of his own. When a Draft is called, Cord must decide whether to hold the family together, or let his brothers stand on their own as each pursues his own convictions.From out-of-the-way Oklahoma farmland to foreign fields, the Alastair brothers deal with alienation from...
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Brazilian Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was the finest storyteller of nineteenth-century Latin America. "Midnight Mass and Other Stories" offers a selection of Machado's tales, from the oft-translated and sly erotic title story, a classic of Brazilian literature, to such brief ironic tales, not previously translated into English, as "A Game," "Coimbra the Clerk," and "Sooner the Tarpeian Rock." Also included is "Botany Lesson," Machado's most successful...
18) Falls the Shadow
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Falls the Shadow consists of twin short stories, Falls the Shadow and La Feria, which, although they have defined identities, share a common heritage and are in many ways inseparable.Falls the Shadow, the first of the two, is set on the North Atlantic coast, whereas La Feria is set in Southern Spain, in Andalusia. It is a journey which takes us from the harsh, pessimistic climes of the north to the gentler, more optimistic region of the south. Though...
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Pocas prácticas literarias generan tantas y tan encontradas opiniones como la traducción. Las mismas pueden ir desde la de Roland Barthes: "Tengo poco conocimiento de la literatura extranjeraa decir verdad, solo me gusta lo que está escrito en francés" hasta la ya clásica de George Steiner: "Sin traducción habitaríamos provincias lindantes con el silenció'.
Desde su propia experiencia como traductor, el escritor colombiano Pablo Montoya nos...
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