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La Bahia del Silencio continues to be one of the fundamental books of the Rio de la Plata narrative. In the intelligent structure of the novel, in the gift of observation, in the exemplary use of irony, the voice of a true teacher is recognized.
The rebellious, truth-seeking spirit of universal youth runs through this first-person story of a young Argentine who batters his head against the stone wall of corruption in his native land. It is the same...
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Foster briefly outlines the the historical tradition of the novel in Argentinian literature and focuses his study to four of its major contemporary writers. His selective survey examines the attributes that distinguish Argentinian novels in general as well as how they appeal to a public beyond national borders by containing trends that encompass Latin American novels as a whole.
3) En vida
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Narrates the disagreement between the individual and his context, a city that becomes alien, hostile. Walking it, traveling on its buses and trains, getting confused with the crowd, wandering aimlessly, is longing for an idyllic time in which childhood and the country air become a corrosive melancholy. The streets are the same as the possessed Arltians walked decades ago. But unlike those, neither Oreste nor his wine cronies, the dawn and brawls envision...
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Cesar is a translator who's fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds a pirate's treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man. Even so, Cesar's bid for world domination comes first and so he attends a literary conference to be near the man whose clone he hopes will lead an army to victory:...
6) Zama
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"First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentinean and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. Eaten up by...
8) Santa Evita
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Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty, snared Argentina's dictator, reigned as uncrowned queen of the masses, and was struck down by cancer. When her desperate but foxy husband brings Europe's leading embalmer to Eva's deathbed to make her immortal, the fantastical comedy begins.
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During their travels in the Cambodian jungle, two sisters, Camila and Margara, meet David Masters-Iturbe and discover that they all have something in common--their Mexican heritage. The three proceed to tell stories in order to alleviate the boredom of long nights in their jungle hotel and end up reconstructing ancient Mexico in the story of the sisters' ancestor.
This imagined hero takes off on an adventure from Mexico to the American Old West,...
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The Book of Memories, originally published in Spanish in 1994, is a humorous yet moving exploration of a Jewish family's history, as seen through the eyes of three generations of women. The story begins with Grandfather Gedalia leaving Poland with forged papers to escape the army and sailing to Argentina, the "other America." Sometimes charming, sometimes stingy, this patriarchal figure, a peddler and sometime moneylender, heads a clan that includes,...
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"In the middle of a blizzard a widow watches the ruin of her late husband's garden, until suddenly she sees a woman running naked in the falling snow. After telling her parents she is abandoning her Christian faith, a girl becomes infatuated with a Mormon missionary who reminds her of a boy killed in her village years before. When his family home is lost, a father desperately offers his daughter's hand in marriage to anyone who will take them in....
14) Hopscotch
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Horacio Oliveira is an Argentinian writer who lives in Paris with his mistress, La Maga, surrounded by a loose-knit circle of bohemian friends who call themselves "the Club." A child's death and La Maga's disappearance put an end to his life of empty pleasures and intellectual acrobatics, and prompt Oliveira to return to Buenos Aires, where he works by turns as a salesman, a keeper of a circus cat which can truly count, and an attendant in an insane...
15) Ficciones
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The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's...
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