The 25 best-kept secrets in contemporary Latin American literature
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1chrisharpe
The 25 best-kept secrets in contemporary Latin American literature - according to the Guadalajara International Book Festival...
Los 25 secretos mejor guardados de América Latina http://www.fil.com.mx/25/default.asp
Los 25 secretos mejor guardados de América Latina http://www.fil.com.mx/25/default.asp
2berthirsch
thanks.
what a great layout, good web design.
i will definitely check them all out but i am afraid, given my poor spanish. most have not yet been translated.
excellente.
what a great layout, good web design.
i will definitely check them all out but i am afraid, given my poor spanish. most have not yet been translated.
excellente.
3chrisharpe
By chance I happened to catch an interview with Ecuadorian Miguel Antonio Chávez (no LT links), broadcast on the BBC World Service early this morning. Apparently each of the 25 writers mentioned above is being featured in a series of interviews from Guadalajara by the BBC over the coming week. The Miguel Antonio Chávez clip is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lskgp#p00m7msx . More in Spanish at http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/cluster_escritores_feria_guadalajara.shtml
4berthirsch
thanks Chris- i enjoyed listening to Chavez
5chrisharpe
A pleasure Bert. During the programme I caught on the radio, they were interviewing another author. I forget the name and even the country. Presumably all the interviews will be linked up in the same place.
6berthirsch
for those of you interested in Latin American writers I offer the following review:
The Lights of Home by Jason Weiss
An interesting book detailing a long list of exiled writers from Latin America who found a "home" in Paris, France.
The writer, Jason Weiss, explores the effect of exile on a writer's work; the interplay between European and American experience. The writers he examines are both famous and obscure: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda and Alejo Carpentier are all internationally recognized giants , while Severo Sarduy, Copi, Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Juan Jose Saer and Lisa Futoransky, Edgardo Cozarinsky are less known.
For anyone with a deep interest in Latin American fiction or poetry this is a worthwhile book to get through. It relates some historical perspective to the giants and introduces the reader to some new characters. All the writers described have interesting histories and different perspectives.
As a reader of Latin America I was familiar with many here but I had never been aware of the Peruvian, Ribeyro, and will seek out some translations if they do exist.
Often the book appears to be a doctorate thesis rather than a piece of journalism, criticism or history but its holds value for those “students” of Latin American fiction.
The Lights of Home by Jason Weiss
An interesting book detailing a long list of exiled writers from Latin America who found a "home" in Paris, France.
The writer, Jason Weiss, explores the effect of exile on a writer's work; the interplay between European and American experience. The writers he examines are both famous and obscure: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda and Alejo Carpentier are all internationally recognized giants , while Severo Sarduy, Copi, Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Juan Jose Saer and Lisa Futoransky, Edgardo Cozarinsky are less known.
For anyone with a deep interest in Latin American fiction or poetry this is a worthwhile book to get through. It relates some historical perspective to the giants and introduces the reader to some new characters. All the writers described have interesting histories and different perspectives.
As a reader of Latin America I was familiar with many here but I had never been aware of the Peruvian, Ribeyro, and will seek out some translations if they do exist.
Often the book appears to be a doctorate thesis rather than a piece of journalism, criticism or history but its holds value for those “students” of Latin American fiction.
