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La Maga

Author : Soror zsd23

Publisher : Kult Ov Kaos Publishing House

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 38,63 MB

Release : 2012-09-03

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ISBN : 9780615687223

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Welcome to the Inner Plane and its tempestuous society of sorcerers and magi and an underclass of lowly folk practitioners and licit and illicit immigrants from the Outer Plane. The series begins with the life and times of a lady mage named Sofia La Maga. Upon returning to her hometown in her magical world after long years of exile in the Himalayas, she befriends, mentors, and rehabilitates the troubled teenaged son of an imposing and elitist dignitary, the high sorcerer Leo de Lux. Strongly averse, then curious, then acquiescing, and ultimately exhilarated, de Lux both falls for Sofia La Maga and also embraces a portended predestined role as the leader of a utopian movement that seeks to overturn an oppressive social system that not only gratuitously exploits magical persons of lesser status but persons like you and me who inhabit the Outer Plane. Magical fantasy is woven with insights from Eastern mysticism and Western esotericism in this first installment of the series. The series offers thought-provoking ideas about self and finding oneself and one's true purpose in the context of magical fantasy and should be of interest to adult fiction readers drawn to magia, mysticism, and spiritual philosophy.



Border Writing

Author : D. Emily Hicks

Publisher : U of Minnesota Press

Page : 178 pages

File Size : 20,98 MB

Release : 1991

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0816619832

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Annotation Examines Latin American literature from the perspective of attempts to break through national, genre, domain, and other borders in order to perceive, or create, a whole culture. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).



Mothers, Lovers, and Others

Author : Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 31,38 MB

Release : 2004-01-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780791459553

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Provocative reappraisal of the portrayal of women in Julio Cortázar's short stories.



Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Philip Swanson

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 27,91 MB

Release : 2015-08-11

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317620291

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In the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the ‘Boom’. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the ‘Boom’ of the 1960s should not be taken as the only flowering of Latin American fiction, for such novels dubbed ‘new novels’ were being written in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as in the 1970s and 1980s. In this edited collection, first published in 1990, Philip Swanson charts the development of Latin American fiction throughout the twentieth century. He assesses the impact of the ‘new novel’ on Latin American literature, and follows its growth. Nine key texts are analysed by contributors, including works by the ‘big four’ of the ‘Boom’ – Fuentes, Cortázar, Garcia Márquez and Vargas Llosa. This book will be of interest to critics and teachers of Latin American literature, and will be useful too as supplementary reading for students of Spanish and Hispanic Studies. It will also serve as a helpful introduction to those new to Latin American fiction.





Marcel Proust and Spanish America

Author : Herbert E. Craig

Publisher : Bucknell University Press

Page : 464 pages

File Size : 45,9 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780838754856

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"Craig begins by attributing the early introduction of the Recherche to the intimate friendship between Proust and the pianist-composer Reynaldo Halm, who was born in Caracas. He then shows in chapter 1 how literary critics of the principal newspapers and literary magazines of such countries as Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile examined this French text, which we know today as one of the fundamental works of modernism. Shortly thereafter interest in the Recherche spread to Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay, and Colombia. Eventually it would be read in all parts of the New World. Over the years Spanish Americans have continued to write about the Recherche and have published several noteworthy books on it, which are included in the comprehensive bibliography which serves as an appendix."--BOOK JACKET.



Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much

Author : Julio Cortazar

Publisher : Everyman's Library

Page : 954 pages

File Size : 47,95 MB

Release : 2014-08-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0375712666

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These three groundbreaking works by Julio Cortázar—a major figure of world literature and one of the founders of the Latin American Boom—are published together in one volume for the first time, in honor of the centenary of his birth. With his influential “counternovel” HOPSCOTCH and his unforgettable short stories, Cortázar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. HOPSCOTCH is a nonlinear novel about an Argentinean writer living in Paris; it consists of 155 short chapters that the author advises the reader to read out of order. BLOW-UP and WE LOVE GLENDA SO MUCH bring together the most famous of Cortázar’s short fiction, including “Axolotl,” “End of the Game,” “The Night Face Up,” “Continuity of Parks,” “Bestiary,” and “Blow-Up”. These are stories in which invisible beasts stalk children in their homes, the reader of a mystery finds out that he is the murderer’s intended victim, an injured motorcyclist is pursued by Aztec warriors, and a man becomes a salamander in a Parisian zoo. In Cortázar’s work, laws of nature, physics, and narrative fall away, leaving us with an astonishing new view of the world.



Keats, Poe, and the Shaping of Cortazar's Mythopoesis

Author : Ana Hernandez Del Castillo

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 149 pages

File Size : 40,8 MB

Release : 1981-01-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9027280738

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The Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar was clearly influenced by his predecessors John Keats and Edgar Allan Poe. However, to what extent? Which aspects of the two Romantics have been kept and which ones transformed by Cortázar’s imagination? And is there a common bond in the works of Keats and Poe which is also the common denominator for their works? And why these particular images, themes, or ideas? This books tries to answer all these questions and is of interest to everyone who wants to know more about Cortázar.





Spaces of Madness

Author : Eunice Rojas

Publisher : Lexington Books

Page : 231 pages

File Size : 18,37 MB

Release : 2014-12-17

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0739190873

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Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symbolic representation of Argentine society during and immediately subsequent to the Dirty War, the figure of the asylum in Argentine literature has evolved along with the institution itself. The authors studied in Spaces of Madness include Manuel T. Podestá, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan José Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela.