Mexico en la obra de Octavio Paz, II. Generaciones y semblanzas: escritores y letras de Mexico, 2. Modernistas y modernos (Mbexico en la Obra de Octavio Paz) (Spanish Edition)
Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I would like to propose a new book challenge for bloggers (perhaps for 2010?), based on "the compilation of the best literature every Latina should check out put together by Latina Magazine: 25 Books Every Latina Should Read" The "25 Books Every Latina/o Should Read" Challenge: The House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez In The Time of...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
‘The Skating Rink is beginner’s Roberto Bolaño: there are no six-page sentences … or jeremiads against Octavio Paz.’
Venepoetics (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The “Mandrágora” Adventure [Jorge Cáceres, “La idea.” Image borrowed from Mandrágora ] In 1942 Braulio Arenas edits in Santiago, Chile, the first issue of the magazine Leit-motiv which includes collaborations from Breton, Péret, Césaire, Gómez Correa, Arenas himself, Teófilo Cid, Jorge Cáceres, and Juan Sánchez Peláez....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Defunct DFS service bugged Colombian author's phone and tracked his movements, starting in 1967 Mexico's intelligence service spied on the writer Gabriel García Márquez for decades and considered him a Cuban agent, it emerged this week. The defunct DFS agency bugged the Nobel laureate's phone and monitored his movements from 1967 after he moved to Mexico with his family. The authorities...
Venepoetics (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Extinguished Voice The poet, essayist and translator Alfredo Silva Estrada died on Wednesday night in Caracas [Photo: Iván González, 2005] “To write at the limits: shock, emotion, touchstone: That shock called poetry.” That is what was sought in Al través by Alfredo Silva Estrada, the poet who died on Wednesday night accompanied by the dancer and choreographer Sonia...
The Waco Tribune-Herald - News (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Sun, Stone, and Shadows — the poetic title of Jorge Hernandez’s new anthology of 20th-century Mexican literature — was chosen by a computer. Those were the keyword images that emerged most often in an electronic search of the 20 stories by such heavyweights as Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo and Carlos Fuentes.
The Cultural Tourist (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Though by no means boastful, Burt Britton used to describe himself as The World's Greatest Reader. Within reason, of course, His knowledge did not go back to Tertullian or Beaumont and Fletcher or even the Victorians. But when it came to 20th century literature the world over he was irrefutably omniscient. There are names of contemporary authors you could type into Google and probably get no response....
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