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Latin American Literature
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by Augusto Roa Roa Bastos
Translated by Helen Lane
Original title: Yo el Supremo
Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dream of absolute power, who sought to impose their mad
visions of Perfect Order on their own peoples. Latin American writers, in turn, have responded with fictional portraits of such figures, and (more...) |
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by Luisa Valenzuela
Translated by Helen Lane
Original title: Como en la guerra
A professor of semiotics who doubles as a psychologist in Barcelona visits (always in disguise) a prostitute in the early
hours of the morning on Mondays and Thursdays in order to analyze her without her knowing it. The story moves from Barcelona to Mexico to Buenos Aires, but above all i (more...) |
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by José Lezama Lima
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: Paradiso
A classic of modern literature, Paradiso
was first published in Cuba in 1966 and quickly hailed as a masterpiece by such eminent writers as Julio Cortazar and Mario Vargas Llosa. Written by Cuba's most important poet, it tells the story of Jose Cemi
, who, in the wake of his father (more...) |
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by Aristeo Brito
Translated by D W Foster
Original title: El diablo en Texas
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by Gioconda Belli
Original title: La mujer habitada
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by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Translated by S J Levine
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by Paco Ignacio Taibo
Translated by L C Dail
Original title: Cuatro manos
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by Giannina Braschi
Translated by T O’Dwyer
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