Felipe Garrido's Conjuros (Narrativa en lengua española) (Spanish Edition) PDF

By Felipe Garrido

ISBN-10: 841599608X

ISBN-13: 9788415996088

"Conjuros" es una colección de 292 textos, muy breves, que quieren ser cuentos. No semblanzas, viñetas, aforismos, chistes ni ocurrencias, sino cuentos. Historias de personajes de carne y hueso, de sombra y olvido, que se enfrentan -atribulados, esperanzados, desconcertados- a los angeles maravilla del mundo. Carcomidos por los angeles certeza de l. a. muerte y por l. a. urgencia del deseo, estos personajes son, sin que ellos lo sepan, esos mismos conjuros que necesitan. Este volumen incluye varios de los mejores cuentos breves de nuestro tiempo. "Conjuros" ganó el premio Xavier Villaurrutia que antes había recaído en autores como Juan Rulfo, Sergio Pitol, Tomás Segovia, Carlos Fuentes o Augusto Monterroso.

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Read e-book online Oil and Water: Stories From the Windward Shore PDF

By Terry Dressler

ISBN-10: 1564745376

ISBN-13: 9781564745378

residing IN PARADISE-AND SWIMMING within the RIPTIDES tales of attractiveness and chance at the Southern California Coast A much-admired lifeguard has misplaced his athletic daughter to the ocean and is modified endlessly. a tender guy trains in Vegas to be a thug for the mob, offers it up and returns to the coast to reside an ethical existence wasted on medications. A homosexual occasion animal at Isla Vista turns into a super businessman until eventually he dies of AIDS. An accident-prone expert salvage diver succumbs to a lifetime of probability and poverty. A teenaged surfer lady has an affair along with her permitting mother's druggy boyfriend. A as soon as profitable homeless guy holds onto his dignity via residing in his final ownership, his boat. those short descriptions are the various springboards from which Terry Dressler builds haunting tales of affection and loss in his debut assortment. those tales are sincere snap shots of guys and girls who relate to each other and to the sea that beckons them to probability and experience. even though the tales during this assortment will not be frightened of the darkish, the booklet additionally makes us joyfully conscious of the sweetness and appeal of the coastal existence. the writer offers us the honour of the surf at Hollister Ranch, the fun of sailing round the Channel Islands, the colourful hustle of Santa Barbara's kingdom road, and the panoramic fantastic thing about the churning ocean. He additionally reminds us, in each tale, that lifestyles is made of shut relationships among and between humans. Oil and Water: tales From the Windward Shore is a well-painted, inviting portrait of the California coastal scene.

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Get The House Across from the Deaf School PDF

By Michael Gills

ISBN-10: 1680031058

ISBN-13: 9781680031058

The apartment throughout from the Deaf college, Michael Gills’ 3rd selection of brief fiction, keeps the lifestyles and occasions of Joey Harvell, whose stepfather, in “Last phrases on Lonoke,” provides him a .30-06, tells him to not goal at something he doesn’t are looking to kill, and “that’s pretty well it for [his] gun protection lessons.”  Later, in “What The Newly useless Don’t recognize yet Learn,” his uncle swims Joey and a bunch of faux cowboys throughout a creek on Camp Robinson, just a fisherman’s trotline is stretched around the S-curve, and the outcome, just like the ebook as a complete, is a troublesome struggle there’s no improving from.

What others have stated approximately Gills' work:

"Each be aware is a spark, each sentence a scorching fuse.  The whole...is a
sun-white conflagration, cleanly and cleansing.  Michael Gills sojourned
within the middle of sunshine and he has back to his domestic international with that
mild nonetheless grasp to his ever utterance.."—Fred Chappell

"Michael Gills' prose reeks with accuracy and bulls-eye
intensity..."—William Harrison

"These tales are, scene by means of scene, sentence by means of sentence, beautifully
written--clean, beautiful prose, completely pitched.  The aspect paintings is
exquisite.  anguish and loss are given their valuable position in these
tales, yet so too are grace and mercy.”—Donald Hays

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Robert Walser,Juan de Sola Llovet's Historias de amor (Libros del Tiempo) (Spanish Edition) PDF

By Robert Walser,Juan de Sola Llovet

ISBN-10: 847844663X

ISBN-13: 9788478446636

De los más de mil relatos cortos escritos por Robert Walser unos cien versan sobre el amor. Volker Michels, germanista y autor del epílogo que acompaña esta edición, seleccionó en 1978 ochenta y los ordenó cronológicamente. Estos relatos demuestran l. a. gran variedad del registro expresivo de Robert Walser y dan fe de l. a. evolución de un autor que tenía un concepto poco convencional del amor y del erotismo. En ellos se manifiesta un desmesurado amor mundi que lo envuelve todo, las muchachas y los pájaros, las nubes y las mujeres distantes, las flores en los prados y los enamorados que se tumban sobre ellos con su mirada benévola pero también pícara. Con graciosas caricias poéticas, abundantes diminutivos y giros verbales absolutamente delirantes, Robert Walser recoge todo lo que le viene a las mientes para conformar un mundo palpitante de comunicación amorosa y de placer. Son éstas, en suma, unas historias plenas de un humor corrosivo contra l. a. hipócrita ethical burguesa, en las que también aparecen irónicas imitaciones de l. a. literatura amorosa y recreaciones burlescas de los sueños de los angeles adolescencia.

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Download PDF by Italo Calvino,Dulce María Zúñiga: Marcovaldo (Biblioteca Calvino) (Spanish Edition)

By Italo Calvino,Dulce María Zúñiga

ISBN-10: 8478444378

ISBN-13: 9788478444373

«Marcovaldo se compone de veinte relatos. Cada uno está dedicado a una estación; el ciclo de las cuatro estaciones se repite por tanto cinco veces. Todos los relatos tienen el mismo protagonista, Marcovaldo, y siguen más o menos el mismo esquema. El texto de presentación cube: “En medio de los angeles ciudad de cemento y asfalto, Marcovaldo va en busca de l. a. Naturaleza. Pero ¿aún existe? l. a. que él encuentra es una naturaleza rencorosa, contrahecha, comprometida con l. a. vida man made. Personaje bufo y melancólico, Marcovaldo protagoniza una serie de fábulas modernas”, es l. a. última encarnación de una serie de cándidos héroes pobre diablos a lo Charlot, con una particularidad: los angeles de ser un “hombre de los angeles Naturaleza”, un “Buen Salvaje” exiliado en l. a. ciudad commercial. ¿Libro para niños? ¿Libro para jóvenes? ¿Para adultos? O más bien, ¿es un libro en el que el autor expresa su propia relación, perpleja e interrogante, con el mundo?». Italo Calvino

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Download PDF by Nicole Brossard: The Blue Books

By Nicole Brossard

ISBN-10: 1552451208

ISBN-13: 9781552451205

Nicole Brossard's lucid, subversive and cutting edge paintings on language has motivated a whole new release of readers and writers. yet 3 of her seminal works of postmodernism and feminism were misplaced to us for years. The Blue Books brings them back.

A Book: a unique a couple of novel; 5 characters in "search of a story, a story looking for an author." Brossard's first novel, and a key paintings in Canadian postmodernism. Turn of a Pang (Sold-out in French): Quebec's 1943 Conscription trouble and the 1970 battle Measures Act weave jointly to shape the feel of a woman's lifestyles. French Kiss: a party of the power of ladies and language within the face of the male gurus of Montreal politics and the actual authority of the published (and certain) word.

The Blue Books collects those 3 long-out-of-print, groundbreaking Brossard titles, of their unique trainer condominium Press English translations (A Book via Larry Shouldice, Turn of a Pang and French Kiss by the acclaimed Patricia Claxton). do not be blue: those Brossard classics are back!

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Read e-book online Herstories. An Anthology of New Ukrainian Women Prose PDF

By Michael M. Naydan

ISBN-10: 1909156019

ISBN-13: 9781909156012

ISBN-10: 1909156027

ISBN-13: 9781909156029

He is younger, clever, good proficient, with patriotic sentiments. yet definite misunderstandings oblige him to escape from Ukraine, simply because in his homeland he's a misfit, a superfluous man.

For a few cause, every thing in his existence builds as much as a undeniable Russian scenario.

So to what volume may still one burden Ukrainians with the result of this Russian Story?

The honour of Ukraine is redeemed, as regularly, through a woman...

This new booklet through Eugenia Kononenko offers with love and the hunt for one’s personal id, with the vaguely remembered situations rendering lifestyles nonsensical in Ukraine over the past years of the empire and the early years of independence.

It considers the opportunity of a mid-Atlantic assembly in today’s globalised world.

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This title has been realised by a team of the following dedicated professionals:

The novel translated from the Ukrainian by means of Patrick John Corness,

Maxim Hodak - Максим Ходак (Publisher),

Max Mendor - Макс Мендор (Director),

Yana Kovalskaya and Camilla Stein.

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Nuestros antepasados (Biblioteca Calvino) (Spanish Edition) - download pdf or read online

By Italo Calvino,Esther Benítez

ISBN-10: 8478448071

ISBN-13: 9788478448074

ISBN-10: 849841508X

ISBN-13: 9788498415087

«Recojo en este volumen tres historias que escribí en l. a. década de los cincuenta a los sesenta y que tienen en común el hecho de ser inverosímiles y de ocurrir en épocas remotas y en países imaginarios. Dadas estas características comunes, y a pesar de otras características no homogéneas, se piensa que constituyen lo que se suele llamar un “ciclo”, mejor dicho, un “ciclo cerrado” (es decir, acabado, en cuanto no tengo intención de escribir otras). Es una buena ocasión que se me presenta para volverlas a leer e intentar responder a preguntas que hasta ahora había eludido cada vez que me las había planteado: ¿por qué he escrito estas historias? ¿qué quería decir? ¿qué he dicho en realidad? ¿qué sentido tiene este tipo de narrativa en el marco de los angeles literatura real? [...] He querido hacer una trilogía de experiencias sobre cómo realizarse en cuanto seres humanos: en el caballero inexistente l. a. conquista del ser, en el vizconde demediado los angeles aspiración a sentirse completo por encima de las mutilaciones impuestas por l. a. sociedad, en el barón rampante un camino hacia una plenitud no individualista alcanzable a través de los angeles fidelidad a una autodeterminación person: tres grados de acercamiento a los angeles libertad. Y al mismo tiempo he querido que fueran tres historias “abiertas”, como suele decirse, que, sobre todo, se tengan de pie como historias, por l. a. lógica del sucederse de sus imágenes, pero que comiencen su verdadera vida en el imprevisible juego de preguntas y respuestas suscitadas en el lector. Quisiera que pudieran ser vistas como un árbol genealógico de los antepasados del hombre contemporáneo, en el que cada rostro oculta algún rasgo de las personas que están a nuestro alrededor, de vosotros, de mí mismo.»Italo Calvino, junio 1960

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Get Wild Horse: Stories (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction) PDF

By Eric Neuenfeldt

Winner of the distinguished Grace Paley Prize, Wild Horse explores human event in forgotten areas of America’s commercial decline. Interweaving photos of outstanding usual attractiveness with overlooked houses and trashed streets, Neuenfeldt writes absolutely to existence characters who've been dealt wasting fingers. With a pathos either heartrending and interesting, he bargains tales that pull readers thoroughly into the landscapes of loss, bold them to maintain having a look regardless of the squalor simply because there's something in regards to the character—the grit he screens or the hopefulness he maintains—that makes readers are looking to see the way it ends.

An orphaned boy fights to maintain the dilapidated domestic that comprises the reminiscence of his kin. A sawyer’s nephew scrambles to remember the abilities of the alternate within the wake of his uncle’s demise. A corrections instructor traces to offer his son path in a distant legal city after his addict mom deserts them. those tales create a portrait of the tricky judgements humans needs to make in unforgiving atmosphere and the results of the conflict to press on.

Published in cooperation with organization of Writers and Writing Programs.

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Read e-book online Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 9: A Bitter Debate in PDF

By Chu Dongwei (Editor-in-Chief)

this can be the publication version of quantity nine of the peer-reviewed literary magazine chinese language Literature and Culture.
Celebrated chinese language author Zhang Wei, whose novel you're at the Plateau received China’s prestigious Mao Dun Prize for Literature in 2011, can be a strong brief tale author. His innovative strength, skill to skillfully craft a narrative, and picturesque use of language are infrequently present in different writers. Zhang Wei is widely known in China as a grasp of fiction.
during this quantity, we have now Chu Dongwei’s rigorously translated tale “A sour Debate in a Dream” to compliment the chinese language unique through Zhang Wei and a written seminar together with 3 commentaries and one scholarly essay. within the 3 commentaries, Canadian writer Fraser Sutherland’s “A Lesson of types: a statement on ‘A sour Debate in a Dream,’” O. Henry Prize winner Caitlin Horrocks’ “A significant Dream Scene: on Zhang Wei’s ‘A sour Debate in a Dream,’” and writing professor Craig Hulst’s “Practical and Philosophical concerns: people and Their canines: a observation on Zhang Wei’s ‘A sour Debate in a Dream,” and Dr. Brian Cope’s essay “Through Bitterness whatever Ecological Grows: Zhang Wei’s Ecological Allegory,” you will discover attention-grabbing angles from which the writers and students procedure the story.

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