The Argentine scholar NoE Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations of essays first published between 1969 and the late 1990s reveal the extraordinary scope of Jitrik's work, his sharp insights into the interrelations between history and literature, and his keen awareness of the specificities of Latin American literature and its relationship to European writing....
The Argentine scholar NoE Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarshi...
Many critics consider "The Initials of the Earth" to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker JesUs DIaz. Born in Havana in 1941, DIaz was a witness to the Revolution and ardent supporter of it until the last decade of his life. In 1992 he took up residence as an exile in Berlin and later in Madrid, where he died in 2002. This is the first of his books to be translated into English.
Originally written in the 1970s, then rewritten and published simultaneously in Havana and Madrid in 1987, "The Initials of the Earth" spans the...
Many critics consider "The Initials of the Earth" to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and f...
Many critics consider "The Initials of the Earth" to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker JesUs DIaz. Born in Havana in 1941, DIaz was a witness to the Revolution and ardent supporter of it until the last decade of his life. In 1992 he took up residence as an exile in Berlin and later in Madrid, where he died in 2002. This is the first of his books to be translated into English.
Originally written in the 1970s, then rewritten and published simultaneously in Havana and Madrid in 1987, "The Initials of the Earth" spans the...
Many critics consider "The Initials of the Earth" to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and f...
The Argentine scholar NoE Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first to make available in English a selection of his most influential writings. These sparkling translations of essays first published between 1969 and the late 1990s reveal the extraordinary scope of Jitrik's work, his sharp insights into the interrelations between history and literature, and his keen awareness of the specificities of Latin American literature and its relationship to European writing....
The Argentine scholar NoE Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarshi...
Between Legitimacy and Violence is an authoritative, sweeping history of Colombia s long twentieth century, from the tumultuous civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late twentieth. Marco Palacios, a leading Latin American historian, skillfully blends political, economic, social, and cultural history. In an expansive chronological narrative full of vivid detail, he explains Colombia s political history, discussing key leaders, laws, parties, and ideologies; corruption and inefficiency; and the paradoxical nature of government institutions, which, while...
Between Legitimacy and Violence is an authoritative, sweeping history of Colombia s long twentieth century, from the tumultuous civil wars of t...
