Rebeldes y aventureros

No hay libro de Handke que no constituya un acontecimiento. Obra del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2019. «No es para que nos contesten a una pregunta por lo que nos hemos puesto en camino, sino para que, en el silencio del lugar de los antiguos oráculos, cada uno descubra cuál es su pregunta». Con este designio, siete singulares peregrinos emprenden un iniciático «viaje al país sonoro», una búsqueda espiritual que, bajo distintas formas en diferentes culturas, ha constituido siempre el símbolo supremo de la vida humana. En El juego de las preguntas, Handke propone que nos abramos al...

"This new English translation of Canaima should be welcomed by all readers of Gallegos. In addition to Kirkland's translation (based on Charles Minguet's 1991 critique of the novel in Spanish), work contains his engaging and provocative translator's essay

La conquista de America por el lenguaje es el tema de Las auroras de sangre, una apasionante exploracion e interpretacion de Las elegias de varones ilustres de Indias de Juan de Castellanos. Book jacket.

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...