A complete guide to Nobel Prizes in literature from Sully-Prudhomme to Derek Walcott (1901-1992), which can appeal to all readers as a source of documented facts and interesting anecdotes. It contains year-by-year summaries of literary events, parallel lives of laureates, concise biographies, lists of major works, and extensive tables in appendices

This book offers a stylistic analysis of an early-twentieth-century Venezuelan writer known for his travel accounts, stories, novels, and essays. It concentrates on three novels: Idolos rotos, Sangre patricidia, and Peregrina. It discusses contexts (criollismo and modernismo), summarizes plots, and examines sense impressions, imagery, and syntactic devices."

The Uruguayan-born twentieth-century French poet, Jules Supervielle, admired by Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Paul Celan and Richard Howard, here appears for the first time in a bilingual French-English edition of an entire work-in a project authorized and encouraged by Gallimard and the Supervielle family. Naissances provides an epitome-a sampling and a summing up-of much that is fascinating in Supervielle: traditional and free verse poems-lyric, dramatic and narrative-expressing many of his obsessive themes (angoisse, gravitations, metamorphoses, births, loss, exile, death).