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El ojo en la mira (Lector&s #13)
By Diamela Eltit. 2021
"No makeup. A woman looks at the libraries of her life over time. A leftist woman who alters all the…
mandates, the absences of women writers in curricula or literary institutions. A woman who speaks out in favor of cultural minorities and recognizes herself in them, who investigates the mechanisms of domination and control, the cultural effects of dictatorships, on both sides of the Andes. She is a Chilean writer who bears the name of a dog or a flower: Diamela Eltit, the same one who in this book removes the deep layers of so many readings that constitute her. Without airs, without establishing hierarchies, until she penetrates the most real part of herself and of the times." -- Translation provided by NLSJulia de Burgos: la creación de un ícono Puertorriqueño
By Vanessa Pérez Rosario. 2022
"Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her…
legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities." -- GoodreadsJulio Verne: una versión (Grandes biografías #1)
By David Mayor Orguillés. 2007
"The French novelist's life unfolded peacefully, punctuated with small maritime adventures only disturbed by the problems brought on by his…
son. Different mistresses have been attributed to Verne and he has even been accused of being a pedophile, but this does not seem to be based on very evident facts. The last third of the 19th century offered Europe a rapidly advancing industrial society. Verne observed this new panorama that was opening up to the real world and, also, to the literary world. A collector of scientific reviews, Verne patiently noted new technical theories. The success he achieved with his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon would not abandon him in successive publications, making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He was a forerunner of the science fantasy genre and foretold many scientific inventions and adventures." -- Translation provided by NLSVHS: (unas memorias)
By Alberto Fuguet. 2017
"Alberto Fuguet returns to non-fiction in VHS to tell the story of his adolescence and youth in the 70s and…
80s, marked by his unleashed love for cinema, while discovering the city and living his sexual awakening and his professional beginnings in an intense way. Analyzing the films of his life and the career of some of his favorite filmmakers and actors, such as Matt Dillon and Jacqueline Bisset, commenting on the art of the poster and the tagline, recalling his trips to the old movie theaters or the video stores that invaded Santiago three decades ago, telling hot anecdotes of his time in the media and reflecting on the disco and pop wave, Fuguet manages to articulate a funny and at the same time emotional, fragmentary and coherent, cheeky and versatile book, which draws on verses, photos and personal archives." -- Translation provided by NLSLa llama inmortal de Stephen Crane
By Paul Auster. 2021
"Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.…
With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight. Auster's probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville's most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death." -- Provided by publisher. Some violence and some strong language. L.A. Times Book Prize for Biography. Spanish languageLlorando en el baño: memorias
By Erika L Sánchez. 2022
"Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the '90s, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit,…
and disappointment-a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, she's now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she's still got an irrepressible laugh, acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her. In these essays, Sánchez writes about everything from sex to white feminism to debilitating depression, revealing an interior life rich with ideas, self-awareness, and perception. Raunchy, insightful, unapologetic, and brutally honest, Crying in the Bathroom is Sánchez at her best-a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend." -- GoodreadsÑamérica
By Martín Caparrós. 2021
"There is a certain region of the world in which twenty countries and more than 400 million people share a…
language, a history, a culture, concerns and hopes. We know it poorly; we know mostly its myths, its reflections, its commonplaces; we think of it as it was in other times. This region is called or could be called Ñamérica - and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is now. Martín Caparrós has been traveling through it for many years and has looked at it from all sides: from its big cities to its small towns, from its reggaeton to its economies, from its violence to its food, from its governments to its soccer, from its inequality to its insurrections, from its migrants to its books, from its defiant women to its corrupt politicians, from its new rich to its always poor, from its history to its diverse futures. With all this, Ñamérica assembles a fresco that shows us that Ñamérica is not what we thought it was. A mestizo book, a crossbreed of words, Ñamérica is, like The Hunger before it, a chronicle that thinks, an essay that tells, a great story assembled with that style that defines its author as one of the language's decisive storytellers." -- Translation provided by NLSLas genealogías
By Margo Glantz. 2019
"At the heart of this brilliant and colourful Mexican novel lies the search for a family history. Using ancestral recollections,…
flashbacks through history, and personal memory, the author traces her family roots from pre-Revolutionary Russia to contemporary Mexico. Margo Glantz's Mexico is a mysterious world--a cultural carnival where Flash Gordon crosses paths with Columbus: a Mexico of Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo, hijacked by Dracula and King Kong, filled with the aromas of a kosher bakery and the echoes of jokes, some corny, some not." -- Goodreads