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The Collapsible Couple (Paperback): Alicia Borinsky The Collapsible Couple (Paperback)
Alicia Borinsky; Translated by Cola Franzen
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
So We Lost Paradise - Selected Poems (English, Spanish, Paperback): Juan Cameron So We Lost Paradise - Selected Poems (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Juan Cameron; Translated by Cola Franzen, Steven F. White, Roger Hickin
R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Golpes Bajos/Low Blows - Instantaneas/Snapshots (Hardcover): Alicia Borinsky Golpes Bajos/Low Blows - Instantaneas/Snapshots (Hardcover)
Alicia Borinsky; Translated by Cola Franzen; Foreword by Michael Wood
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In these short, bilingual stories set in Buenos Aires (with each piece appearing in Spanish and English on facing pages), Alicia Borinsky provides unique glimpses into the lives of the city's inhabitants: its businessmen and tango dancers, politicians and torturers, triumphant divas and discarded children--a gallery of characters from a broad spectrum of contemporary Argentine society. She portrays a world of violence, corruption, love, and betrayal. The brevity of the pieces suggests a breathlessness and ephemeral quality, the fast-paced rhythm of the present. Yet within these small moments flicker the larger forces that shape ordinary lives. Civil wars are fought, shady deals are made, unwanted children are born. And in Borinsky's ironic but life-affirming prose, human foibles are exposed. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association

Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer - Vaudeville Novel (Paperback): Alicia Borinsky Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer - Vaudeville Novel (Paperback)
Alicia Borinsky; Translated by Alicia Borinsky, Cola Franzen
R460 R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Save R77 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer" takes place in the new "free market" era of personal choices and relations: a chaotic, sometimes hopeful, often comic world that has supplanted the old order of political terror and clearly demarcated ideological divides. The novel's vaudeville qualities, with characters shuffling on and off the page in rapid succession, are complemented by its exhilarating air of parody. "Dreams" draws ingeniously upon the sentimentality and ephemera of popular culture--quoting radio and TV shows, song lyrics, newspaper items, and bits of gossip-- while also offering a sterner, more nuanced view of public and private relations. It is in large measure this mix of elements--"popular" and "high" culture, sentimentality and political understanding, vaudeville and arch satire--that makes "Dreams" an exemplary postmodern novel.

Spanish Music in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover): Tomas Marco Spanish Music in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Tomas Marco; Translated by Cola Franzen
R2,653 Discovery Miles 26 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the exhilarating impact of Isaac Albeniz at the beginning of the century to today's complex and adventurous avant-garde, this complete interpretive history introduces twentieth-century Spanish music to English-speaking readers. With graceful authority, Tomas Marco, award-winning composer, critic, and bright light of Spanish music since the 1960s, covers the entire spectrum of composers and their works: trends and movements, critical and popular reception, national institutions, influences from Europe and beyond, and the effect of such historic events as the Spanish Civil War and the death of Franco. Marco's penetrating aesthetic critiques are threaded throughout each phase of this rich account. Marco provides detailed coverage of the key figures, including a chapter devoted entirely to Manuel de Falla - Spain's most celebrated twentieth-century composer - and a panoramic survey of recent arrivals on the contemporary music scene. Exploring the rise and fall of the zarzuela, the author highlights innovative works in this authentic Spanish genre. He analyzes the attempts to find an audience for Spanish opera; demonstrates the flowering of symphonic and chamber music at the beginning of this century; traces currents such as romanticism, impressionism, and neoclassicism; and tracks the influence of Spain's distinctive regional folk traditions. Covering musical innovation after Spain's emergence in 1945 from its period of isolation, Marco notes the speed with which many composers absorbed the work of Stravinsky and Bartok, the twelve-tone system, aleatory forms, electronic techniques, and other European developments. English-speaking scholars, musicians, critics, and general readers havefor decades been without full information on the rich and varied work coming out of Spain in this century. This lively history fills a long-felt need and fills it superbly, with the knowledge and insights of a major figure in the musical world.

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