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Mariano Azuela, the first of the novelists of the Revolution, was
born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1873. He studied
medicine in Guadalajara and returned to Lagos in 1909, where he
began the practice of his profession. He began his writing career
early; in 1896 he published Impressions of a Student in a weekly of
Mexico City. This was followed by numerous sketches and short
stories, and in 1911 by his first novel, Andres Perez, maderista.
Like most of the young Liberals, he supported Francisco I. Madero's
uprising, which overthrew the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, and in
1911 was made Director of Education of the State of Jalisco. After
Madero's assassination, he joined the army of Pancho Villa as
doctor, and his knowledge of the Revolution was acquired at
firsthand. When the counterrevolutio-nary forces of Victoriano
Huerta were temporarily triumphant, he emigrated to El Paso, Texas,
where in 1915 he wrote The Underdogs (Los de abajo), which did not
receive general recognition until 1924, when it was hailed as the
novel of the Revolution.
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The Absent City (Paperback)
Ricardo Piglia; Translated by Sergio Waisman
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R642
R564
Discovery Miles 5 640
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Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in
Argentina, "The Absent City" takes the form of a futuristic
detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the
nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy
after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to
create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark
avant-garde aesthetics with astute cultural and political insights
into Argentina's history and contemporary condition in this
conceptually daring and entertaining work.
The novel follows Junior, a reporter for a daily Buenos Aires
newspaper, as he attempts to locate a secret machine that contains
the mind and the memory of a woman named Elena. While Elena
produces stories that reflect on actual events in Argentina, the
police are seeking her destruction because of the revelations of
atrocities that she--the machine--is disseminating through texts
and taped recordings. The book thus portrays the race to recover
the history and memory of a city and a country where history has
largely been obliterated by political repression. Its
narratives--all part of a detective story, all part of something
more--multiply as they intersect with each other, like the streets
and avenues of Buenos Aires itself.
The second of Piglia's novels to be translated by Duke University
Press--the first was "Artifical Respiration"--this book continues
the author's quest to portray the abuses and atrocities that
characterize dictatorships as well as the difficulties associated
with making the transition to democracy. Translated and with an
introduction by Sergio Waisman, it includes a new afterword by the
author.
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Selected Writings (Paperback)
Leopoldo Lugones; Edited by Gwen Kirkpatrick; Translated by Sergio Waisman
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R759
Discovery Miles 7 590
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Argentina's best-known writer during his lifetime, Leopoldo
Lugones's work spans many literary styles and ideological
positions. He was influential as a modernist poet, as a precursor
of the avant-garde, and also as the poet of Argentine nature. His
short stories (Las Fuerzas Extranas: 1906) were early examples of
the fantastic in Latin American fiction and influenced Borges,
Quiroga, and others They reflect an interest in the uncanny and
inspired contemporary interest in animism and occultism because the
protagonists of many the stories were scientists and doctors
experimenting in the transmutation of thought. His prose works
include La Guerra Gaucha (1905) and the essay El Payador (1916) in
which he idealized the gaucho as a heroic figure, popular poet, and
a symbol of Argentine identity. Lugones altered his political views
many times, adopting radical anarchism, and later in life, fascism.
He was therefore a controversial figure, both accalimed and scorned
by his contemporaries. His adherence to the importance of literary
form drew criticism from the new generation of writers, such as
Borges, but Borges later stated in 1955 that "Lugones was and
continues to be the greatest Argentine writer."
Juana Mauela Gorriti (1818-1892) is one of the outstanding women writers of nineteenth-century Argentina. She wrote in various genres from fiction and travelogues to cookbooks and essays and she edited a number of literary reviews in Lima and Buenos Aires, where she put women's issues before the public.
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