Literatura norteamericana
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“Believers” by Charles Baxter “The seven stories and novella in Believers revel in the surfaces of seemingly ordinary characters while uncovering their bedrock of passion, madness, levity, and grief: the young women with a sweetly nurturing boyfriend who may have a secret history of violence; the housewife whose upstairs neighbor is either a child-killer or
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“The collected stories of Katherine Anne Porter” “Porter’s reputation as one of americana’s most distinguished writers rests chiefly on her superb short stories. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas; Pale Horse, Pale Rider; and The Leaning Tower as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form. Winner of the National Book Award
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“Entrevistas breves con hombres repulsivos” por David Foster Wallace “Hay relatos de tamaño convencional y otros que ocupan un sólo párrafo; uno está escrito como un esquema y otro como una entrada de diccionario; hay transcripciones de entrevistas cuyas preguntas jamás leemos, pero imaginamos; hay notas a pie de página que puntúan (y a veces
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“The dispossessed” by Ursula Le Guin “Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family
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“The crying of lot 49” by Thomas Pynchon “The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.” Extraído de Amazon. Ver además: http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-lot49.html http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/lot49/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_of_Lot_49 Los títulos seleccionados son una muestra de los
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“A relative stranger: stories” by Charles Baxter “Set in the Michigan landscape that Charles Baxter has made his own, these thirteen exquisite stories illuminate the often curious connections of relatives and strangers.” Extraído de Powells. Ver además: http://www.charlesbaxter.com/published_works/published_relative.htm http://annotationnation.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/a-relative-stranger-stories/ http://www.elpais.com/todo-sobre/persona/Charles/Baxter/2049/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Baxter_(author) Los títulos seleccionados son una muestra de los materiales de la Biblioteca del Instituto
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“The world as I found it” por Bruce Duffy “Vienna, 1900. The trenches of World War I and the dark slide into Nazi Europe. The intellectual lights of Cambridge University and the nabobs on the outskirts of Bloomsbury. Marriage and domestic life. These are just a few of the worlds the reader enters in this
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“A heartbreaking work of staggering genius” by Dave Eggers “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher “Toph” Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.” Extraído de Wikipedia. Ver además: http://www.culturevulture.net/Books/Heartbreaking.htm http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/reviews/000220.20moslet.html http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/07/16/dave_eggers http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/oct/19/firstchapters.guardianfirstbookaward20001 Los títulos seleccionados son una
Las novedades destacadas de la semana
“How much of us there was” by Michael Kimball “El bullicio que hoy día campea en el orbe literario, y sobre todo en la esfera novelística, no puede silenciar una voz como la de Michael Kimball, que con tres breves pero sustanciosos libros editados en un lapso de ocho años se ubica ya entre los
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“Ravelstein” by Saul Bellow “Ravelstein is Saul Bellow’s final novel. Published in 2000, when Bellow was eighty-five years old, it received widespread critical acclaim. It tells the tale of a friendship between two university professors and the complications that animate their erotic and intellectual attachments in the face of impending death.” Extraído de Wikipedia. Ver