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Los maestros del cuento policial proponen un desafío: acompañar a sus más brillantes detectives en la resolución de cinco apasionantes casos, en versiones especialmente escritas para esta colección.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Letra Impresa
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9874419369
Los maestros del cuento policial proponen un desafío: acompañar a sus más brillantes detectives en la resolución de cinco apasionantes casos, en versiones especialmente escritas para esta colección.
Author : Julio Cortázar
Publisher : Random House
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473572436
A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortázar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin Barry A grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated love triangle, brought together by a plundered Aztec idol, spills over into brutality. A lodger’s inability to stop vomiting bunny rabbits inspires a personal confession. As dream melds into reality, and reality melts into nightmare, one constant remains throughout these thirty-five stories: the singular brilliance of Julio Cortazar’s imagination. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KEVIN BARRY ‘Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed’ Pablo Neruda
Author : Adriana Brodsky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004237283
Congratulations to Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein whose edited volume has been chosen as the winner of the 2013 Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Prize! The New Jewish Argentina aims at filling in important lacunae in the existing historiography of Jewish Argentines. Moving away from the political history of the organized community, most articles are devoted to social and cultural history, including unaffiliated Jews, women and gender, criminals, printing presses and book stores. These essays, written by scholars from various countries, consider the tensions between the national and the trans-national and offer a mosaic of identities which is relevant to all interested in Jewish history, Argentine history and students of ethnicity and diaspora. This collection problematizes the existing image of Jewish-Argentines and looks at Jews not just as persecuted ethnics, idealized agricultural workers, or as political actors in Zionist politics. "This book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in immigration to Latin America, Ethnic History, and Jewish Studies, but its readership could extend to anybody who is interested in this chapter of social and cultural history." Ariana Huberman, Haverford College
Author : Julio Cortázar
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811229467
“One of the most adventurous and rewarding collections since the publication of Cortázar’s own Blow-up.” —Los Angeles Times A traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in a surreal encounter with death. In All Fires the Fire, Julio Cortázar (author of Hopscotch and the short story “Blow-Up” ) creates his own mindscapes beyond space and time, where lives intersect for brief moments and situations break and refract. All Fires the Fire contains some of Julio Cortázar’s most beloved stories. It is a classic collection by “one of the world’s great writers” (Washington Post).
Author : Julio Cortázar
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811225356
A master class from the exhilarating writer Julio Cortázar “I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which he lived. Covering such topics as “the writer’s path” (“while my aesthetic world view made me admire writers like Borges, I was able to open my eyes to the language of street slang, lunfardo…”) and “the fantastic” (“unbeknownst to me, the fantastic had become as acceptable, as possible and real, as the fact of eating soup at eight o’clock in the evening”), Literature Class provides the warm and personal experience of sitting in a room with the great author. As Joaquin Marco stated in El Cultural, “exploring this course is to dive into Cortázar designing his own creations.… Essential for anyone reading or studying Cortázar, cronopio or not!”
Author : Julio Cortázar
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101870141
"Cortazar's masterpiece ... The first great novel of Spanish America" (The Times Literary Supplement) • Winner of the National Book Award for Translation in 1967, translated by Gregory Rabassa Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane asylum. Hopscotch is the dazzling, freewheeling account of Oliveira's astonishing adventures.
Author : Simon Collier
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 1986-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822976420
In the first biography in English of the great Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Collier traces his rise from very modest beginnings to become the first genuine "superstar" of twentieth-century Latin America. In his late teens, Gardel won local fame in the barrios of Buenos Aires singing in cafes and political clubs. By the 1920s, after he switched to tango singing, the songs he wrote and sang enjoyed instant popularity and have become classics of the genre. He began making movies in the 1930s, quickly establishing himself as the most popular star of the Spanish-language cinema, and at the time of his death Paramount was planning to launch his Hollywood career.Collier's biography focuses on Gardel's artistic career and achievements but also sets his life story within the context of the tango tradition, of early twentieth-century Argentina, and of the history of popular entertainment.
Author : Thaisa Frank
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1250093406
An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own. Mixing creative inspiration with practical advice about craft, the book includes chapters on: Accessing raw voice Listening to voices of childhood, public and private voices, and colloquial voices Working in first and third person: discovering a narrative persona Using voice to create characters Shaping one's voice into the form of a story Reigniting the energy of voice during revision
Author : Debi Prasanna Pattanayak
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Literacy
ISBN :
Author : Colectivo de autores,
Publisher : RUTH
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9592116067
No es común encontrar literatura policial escrita para niños y adolescentes, como es el caso de esta obra, en la que el lector podrá disfrutar de quince cuentos de excelente factura. El ambiente doméstico, el barrio, un aeropuerto, un guateque campesino, la escuela, la playa, una biblioteca... son algunos de los espacios habitados por la curiosidad de los más pequeños en esta obra. Estamos ante historias que reúnen la picardía y el asombro de variadas travesuras, ideales para leer y compartir en familia, un libro que, al abrirlo, nos hace recordar, sonreír y sobre todo, soñar