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Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview by Kit Maude

2013-06-25T00:30:00-05:00

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude

eBook, 192 pages | Melville House | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American | $15.95 | 978-1-61219-205-5 (1-61219-205-X)

Days before his death, Borges gave an intimate interview to his friend, the Argentine journalist Gloria Lopez Lecube. That interview is translated for the first time here, giving English-language readers a new insight into his life, loves, and thoughts about his work and country at the end of his life.

Accompanying that interview are a selection of the fascinating interviews he gave throughout his career. Highlights include his celebrated conversations with Richard Burgin during Borges's time as a lecturer at Harvard University, in which he gives rich new insights into his own works and the literature of others, as well as discussing his now oft-overlooked political views. The pieces combine to give a new and revealing window on one of the most celebrated cultural figures of the past century.

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview by Kit Maude

2013-06-25T00:30:00-05:00

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude

Trade Paperback, 192 pages | Melville House | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American | $15.95 | 978-1-61219-204-8 (1-61219-204-1)

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Michael Henry Heim

2012-04-25T00:30:00-05:00

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Written by Bohumil Hrabal
Translated by Michael Henry Heim
Introduction by Adam Thirlwell

eBook | NYRB Classics | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Classics; Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American | $14.00 | 978-1-59017-556-9 (1-59017-556-5)

Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal’s rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life—or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime’s worth of stories. Thus we learn of amatory conquests (and humiliations), of scandals both private and public, of military adventures and domestic feuds, of what things were like “in the days of the monarchy” and how they’ve changed since. As the book tumbles restlessly forward, and the comic tone takes on darker shadings, we realize we are listening to a man talking as much out of desperation as from exuberance.

Hrabal, one of the great Czech writers of the twentieth century, as well as an inveterate haunter of Prague’s pubs and football stadiums, developed a unique method which he termed “palavering,” whereby characters gab and soliloquize with abandon. Part drunken boast, part soul-rending confession, part metaphysical poem on the nature of love and time, this astonishing novel (which unfolds in a single monumental sentence) shows why he has earned the admiration of such writers as Milan Kundera, John Banville, and Louise Erdrich.

Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview by Sybil Perez

2011-12-06T00:30:00-05:00

Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview And Other Conversations
Written by Roberto Bolano
Translated by Sybil Perez
Introduction by Marcela Valdes

Trade Paperback, 128 pages | Melville House | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American; Literary Collections | $15.95 | 978-1-61219-095-2 (1-61219-095-2)

With the release of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives in 1998,journalist Monica Maristain discovered a writer “capable of befriending his readers.” After exchanging several letters with Bolaño, Maristain formed a friendship of her own, culminating in an extensive interview with the novelist about truth and consequences, an interview that turned out to be Bolaño’s last.

Appearing for the first time in English, Bolaño’s final interview is accompanied by a collection of conversations with reporters stationed throughout Latin America, providing a rich context for the work of the writer who, according to essayist Marcela Valdes, is “a T.S. Eliot or Virginia Woolf of Latin American letters.” As in all of Bolaño’s work, there is also wide-ranging discussion of the author’s many literary influences. (Explanatory notes on authors and titles that may be unfamiliar to English-language readers are included here.)

The interviews, all of which were completed during the writing of the gigantic 2666, also address Bolaño’s deepest personal concerns, from his domestic life and two young children to the realities of a fatal disease.

Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler

2009-09-23T00:30:00-05:00

Travels in a Thin Country A Journey Through Chile
Written by Sara Wheeler

eBook, 336 pages | Modern Library | Travel - South America; Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays | $11.99 | 978-0-307-56076-6 (0-307-56076-7)

Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a Thin Country established Sara Wheeler as one of the very best travel writers in the world.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

CANEK by Ermilo Abreu Gomez

2005-07-05T00:30:00-05:00

CANEK
Written by Ermilo Abreu Gomez

Paperback, 116 pages | Debolsillo | Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American | $7.95 | 978-0-307-27416-8 (0-307-27416-0)

Girl Like Che Guevara by Teresa De La Caridad Doval

2005-04-01T00:30:00-05:00

Girl Like Che Guevara
Written by Teresa De La Caridad Doval

Trade Paperback, 320 pages | Soho Press | Fiction; Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American | $13.00 | 978-1-56947-397-9 (1-56947-397-8)

“Amusing, observant. . . . Doval’s sense of place and devastating depiction of prejudice in 1980s Cuba make this a worthwhile debut.”—The Miami Herald

“[A] piquant coming-of-age novel.”—O magazine

“Absolutely remarkable . . . explodes with brilliance.” —Carlos Eire, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana

“A rich and perceptive portrayal of daily life in Cuba.” —Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Sixteen-year-old Lourdes is a dedicated and proud revolutionary who spends the summer of 1982, along with her peers, at the “School-in-the-Fields,” tilling tobacco fields to prove her dedication to Fidel and the revolution.

But she is also a study of contradictions. Lourdes outwardly scoffs at the old ways but wears an azabache amulet under her clothing, next to her Che medallion, to ward off evil spirits. She secretly prays to the orisha Yemayá while she pledges her fealty to Fidel and the secular socialist ideals of her father, a professor of scientific Communism at the University of Havana. She develops a crush on her roommate at the camp, but, like many other things in the socialist regime under which she lives, same-sex relationships are forbidden. Like other girls her age, she longs to wear smuggled Jordache jeans and drink Cuban coffee, to watch American cartoons and eat steak whenever she wants. All simple pleasures, all denied her by the same revolution she serves. What she has are the harsh realities of life in a glorified work camp, which lead her to question her allegiances. Why does she want to be like Che?

Teresa de la Caridad Doval was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1966. She attended the University of Havana and earned a BA in English literature and an MA in Spanish literature. She left Cuba in 1996 and currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband.

Latin American Writers at Work by Derek Wolcott

2003-03-18T00:30:00-05:00

Latin American Writers at Work
Written by Paris Review
Introduction by Derek Wolcott

Trade Paperback, 352 pages | Modern Library | Literary Criticism & Collections - Books & Reading; Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American | $13.95 | 978-0-679-77349-8 (0-679-77349-5)

The fourth book in the Modern Library’s Paris Review Writers at Work series, Latin American Writers at Work is a thundering collection of interviews with some of the most important and acclaimed Latin American writers of our time. These fascinating conversations were compiled from the annals of The Paris Review and include a new, lyrical Introduction by Nobel Prize–winning author Derek Walcott.

Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler

1999-03-16T00:30:00-05:00

Travels in a Thin Country A Journey Through Chile
Written by Sara Wheeler

Trade Paperback, 336 pages | Modern Library | Travel - South America; Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American; Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays | $15.00 | 978-0-375-75365-7 (0-375-75365-6)

Random House New Releases - Literary Criticism & Collections - Central & South American

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview by Kit Maude

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other ConversationsWritten by Jorge Luis Borges Translated by Kit Maude

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview by Kit Maude

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other ConversationsWritten by Jorge Luis Borges Translated by Kit Maude

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Michael Henry Heim

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age Written by Bohumil Hrabal Translated by Michael Henry Heim Introduction by Adam Thirlwell

Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview by Sybil Perez

Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview And Other ConversationsWritten by Roberto Bolano Translated by Sybil Perez Introduction by Marcela Valdes

Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler

Travels in a Thin Country A Journey Through ChileWritten by Sara Wheeler

CANEK by Ermilo Abreu Gomez

CANEK Written by Ermilo Abreu Gomez

Girl Like Che Guevara by Teresa De La Caridad Doval

Girl Like Che Guevara Written by Teresa De La Caridad Doval

Latin American Writers at Work by Derek Wolcott

Latin American Writers at Work Written by Paris Review Introduction by Derek Wolcott

Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler

Travels in a Thin Country A Journey Through ChileWritten by Sara Wheeler

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude

Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Written by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Kit Maude

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age
Written by Bohumil Hrabal
Translated by Michael Henry Heim
Introduction by Adam Thirlwell

Roberto Bolano: The Last Interview And Other Conversations
Written by Roberto Bolano
Translated by Sybil Perez
Introduction by Marcela Valdes

Travels in a Thin Country A Journey Through Chile
Written by Sara Wheeler

CANEK
Written by Ermilo Abreu Gomez

Girl Like Che Guevara
Written by Teresa De La Caridad Doval

Latin American Writers at Work
Written by Paris Review
Introduction by Derek Wolcott

Travels in a Thin Country A Journey Through Chile
Written by Sara Wheeler