Seven Serpents and Seven Moons
Author: Demetrio Aguilera Malta
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780380547678
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Author: Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780380547678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeven Serpents and Seven Moons is set on the shores of Santorontón. This tropical village is inhabited by some exceptional beings: the vigorous, rough-hewn Father Cándido and his wry talking Jesus--a crucifix presented to him by pirates from out of the past; Colonel Candelario Mariscal, the despoiler who is said to be the son of the Devil and is seeking salvation through the honest love of the daughter of the witch doctor Bulu-Bulu; and Crisóstomo Chalena, the outsider who gains control of the town's roofs and rainwater and eventually the entire village. These and many other equally protean figures cross paths and swords as Santorontón is torn between the Evil One and the Crucified One. The story is invested with a pervading sense of magic and with political meaning as well. The fantastic microcosm of Santorontón illustrates both symbolically and literally many of the essential problems that bedevil Latin America.
Author: Steve Jackson
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 320
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Published: 1986
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gregory Rabassa
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780811216654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGregory Rabassa's influence as a translator is incalculable. His translations of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch have helped make these some of the most widely read and respected works in world literature. (Garcia Marquez was known to say that the English translation of One Hundred Years was better than the Spanish original.) In If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents Rabassa offers a cool-headed and humorous defense of translation, laying out his views on the art of the craft. Anecdotal, and always illuminating, If This Be Treason traces Rabassa's career, from his boyhood on a New Hampshire farm, his school days "collecting" languages, the two-and-a-half years he spent overseas during WWII, his travels, until one day "I signed a contract to do my first translation of a long work [Cortazar's Hopscotch] for a commercial publisher." Rabassa concludes with his "rap sheet," a consideration of the various authors and the over 40 works he has translated. This long-awaited memoir is a joy to read, an instrumental guide to translating, and a look at the life of one of its great practitioners.
Author: Chris Dolunt
Publisher: Atlas Games
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781589780637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDragons are wily and wise creatures of vast intelligence and capriciousness and their dens reflect this. Herein lie seven dragon lairs and the serpents that inhabit them, following in the footsteps of the Seven Strongholds, Seven Cities, and Sacred Ground sourcebooks.
Author: María Constanza Guzmán
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2011-03-14
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1611480094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a critical study of the work of Gregory Rabassa, translator of such canonical novels as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez's Cien años de soledad, José Lezama Lima's Paradiso, and Julio Cortàzar's Rayuela. During the past five decades, Rabassa has translated over fifty Latin American novels and to this day he is one of the most prominent English translators of literature from Spanish and Portuguese. Rabassa's role was pivotal in the internationalization of several Latin American writers; it led to the formation of a canon and, significantly, to the most prevalent image of Latin American literature in the world. Even though Rabassa's legacy has been widely recognized, the extent of his work's influence and the complexity of the sociocultural circumstances surrounding his practice have remained largely unexamined. In Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature: A Translator's Visible Legacy, María Constanza Guzmán examines the translator's conceptions about language, contextualizes his work in terms of the structures and conditions that have surrounded his practice, and investigates the role his translations have played in constructing collective narratives of Latin American literature in the global imaginary. By revisiting and historicizing the translator's practice, this book reveals the scale of Rabassa's legacy. The translator emerges as an active subject in the inter-American literary exchange, an agent bound to history and to the forces involved in the production of culture.
Author: Compiled by Sarah Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 1234
ISBN-13: 1351958399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA selection of the best in travel writing, with both fiction and non-fiction presented together, this companion is for all those who like travelling, like to think about travelling, and who take an interest in their destination. It covers guidebooks as well as books about food, history, art and architecture, religion, outdoor activities, illustrated books, autobiographies, biographies and fiction and lists books both in and out of print. Anderson's Travel Companion is arranged first by continent, then alphabetically by country and then by subject, cross-referenced where necessary. There is a separate section for guidebooks and comprehensive indexes. Sarah Anderson founded the Travel Bookshop in 1979 and is also a journalist and writer on travel subjects. She is known by well-known travel writers such as Michael Palin and Colin Thubron. Michael Palin chose her bookshop as his favourite shop and Colin Thubron and Geoffrey Moorhouse, among others, made suggestions for titles to include in the Travel Companion.
Author: Demetrio Aguilera-Malta
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1461260027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Gordon Anderson
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1434453278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Romance of Uncharted Seas and Untrodden Shores