Author : João Guimarães Rosa
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Brazilian fiction
ISBN :
A NOVEL OF NORTHERN BRAZIL BY ONE OF THE LEADING BRAZILIAN AUTHORS.
Author : René Marqués
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Puerto Rican drama
ISBN :
Portrays the migration of a Puerto Rican family from the countryside to the San Juan ghetto and eventually to Spanish Harlem in New York City.
Author : Amos Tutuola
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0571311555
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Amos Tutuola's second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape.'Tutuola ... has the immediate intuition of a creative artist working by spell and incantation.' V. S. Pritchett, New Statesman
Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 1943-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822203032
THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.
Author : Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984898140
I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.
Author : José Eustasio Rivera
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0822371766
Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced or tricked into tapping rubber trees. A story populated by con men, rubber barons, and the unrelenting landscape, The Vortex is both a denunciation of the sensational human-rights abuses that took place during the Amazonian rubber boom and one of the most famous renderings of the natural environment in Latin American literary history.
Author : João Guimarães Rosa
Publisher : Boulevard Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Rosa (1908-1967) was one of the most acclaimed Brazilian writers of the 20th century, exploring the twisting frontiers between 'white man' and Indio, human and animal kind, city and backwoods life, madness and sanity, all themes that he examined with unflagging originality of throughout and language. This paperback original contains entirely new translations of his best pieces.
Author : Piers Armstrong
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838754047
Where was Brazil in the so-called "Latin American" literary Boom? Third World Literary Fortunes posits a response contrasting the figures of Jorge Amado, "vulgar" but uniquely successful in capturing Brazilian popular energies in literature, and Joao Guimaraes Rosa, "Brazil's Joyce."
Author : João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1564785890
A searingly funny and passionate fictional monologue of woman who refuses to accept the constraints of life in 1950s Brazil.
Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2011-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1429921927
The Nobel Prize–winning author’s classic on the craft of novel writing “distills [the great works] brilliantly, revealing an architecture to their greatness” (The Washington Post Book World). In Letters to a Young Novelist, Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe—including Borges, Bierce, Céline, Cortázar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet and others—he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.
