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Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811225402 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 128
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The 1997 novel that put Horacio Castellanos Moya on the map, now published for the first time in English An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother’s funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the evening, telling his tale and ranting against everything his country has to offer. Written in a single paragraph and alive with a fury as astringent as the wrath of Thomas Bernhard, Revulsion was first published in 1997 and earned its author death threats. Roberto Bolano called Revulsion Castellanos Moya’s darkest book and perhaps his best: “A parody of certain works by Bernhard and the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud.”
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811225402 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
The 1997 novel that put Horacio Castellanos Moya on the map, now published for the first time in English An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother’s funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the evening, telling his tale and ranting against everything his country has to offer. Written in a single paragraph and alive with a fury as astringent as the wrath of Thomas Bernhard, Revulsion was first published in 1997 and earned its author death threats. Roberto Bolano called Revulsion Castellanos Moya’s darkest book and perhaps his best: “A parody of certain works by Bernhard and the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud.”
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811219844 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 160
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A Rainmaker Translation Grant Winner from the Black Mountain Institute: Senselessness, acclaimed Salvadoran author Horacio Castallanos Moya's astounding debut in English, explores horror with hilarity and electrifying panache. A boozing, sex-obsessed writer finds himself employed by the Catholic Church (an institution he loathes) to proofread a 1,100 page report on the army's massacre and torture of thousands of indigenous villagers a decade earlier, including the testimonies of the survivors. The writer's job is to tidy it up: he rants, "that was what my work was all about, cleaning up and giving a manicure to the Catholic hands that were piously getting ready to squeeze the balls of the military tiger." Mesmerized by the strange Vallejo-like poetry of the Indians' phrases ("the houses they were sad because no people were inside them"), the increasingly agitated and frightened writer is endangered twice over: by the spell the strangely beautiful heart-rending voices exert over his tenuous sanity, and by real danger—after all, the murderers are the very generals who still run this unnamed Latin American country.
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811219178 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 281
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With pitch-perfect, pitch-black humor, this saga refracts through one family's struggles a whole country's nightmare. The tyrant of the book is the actual pro-Nazi mystic Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, known as the Warlock, who came to power in El Salvador in 1932. An attempted coup in April of 1944 failed, but a general strike in May finally forced him out of office. The book takes place during that tumultuous month between the coup and the strike. With her husband a political prisoner and her son fleeing for his life, wealthy Haydée Aragon takes matters into her own hands. Events ricochet from one near-disaster to the next.--Publisher's description.
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811219852 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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Salvadorean society is shocked by the gruesome murder of a young upper-class woman, and no one more so than her best friend Laura. In her first-person solo narration, Laura rattles on and on about her disbelief and horror at the evils all around her—but who’s that in the mirror? Laura Rivera can’t believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her home, in front of her two young daughters! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger, but Laura will not rest easy until she finds out. Her dizzying, delirious, hilarious, and blood-curdling one-sided dialogue carries the reader on a rough and tumble ride through the social, political, economic, and sexual chaos of post-civil war San Salvador. A detective story of pulse-quickening suspense, The She-Devil in the Mirror is also a sober reminder that justice and truth are more often than not illusive. Castellanos Moya’s relentless, obsessive narrator—female, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliable—paints with frivolous profundity a society in a state of collapse. Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness was acclaimed “an innovative and invigoratingly twisted piece of art” (Village Voice) and “a brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materials” (Russell Banks).
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811223442 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 114
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A high-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home to El Salvador. High-octane paranoia deranges a writer and fuels a dangerous plan to return home at the tail end of El Salvador's long civil war. Is the plan a dream or a nightmare? Is he courageous, foolhardy, or just plain dumb? Is the bubbling brew of horrors and threats actual or imagined? After he seeks relief for liver pain through hypnosis (while drinking more than ever, despite the treatments), his few impulse-control mechanisms rapidly dissolve, and reality only rarely intrudes on his cogitations. Harebrained murder plots, half-mad arguments, hysterical rants: the narrative escalates at a maniacal pace, infused with Horacio Castellanos Moya's uniquely outlandish and acerbic sense of humor.
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Dois amigos de infância, Vega e Moya, se encontram num bar, num final de tarde em San Salvador, América Central. O primeiro deles acaba de retornar à cidade, para o velório da mãe, após anos de autoexílio. Diante de seu interlocutor silencioso, revela toda a cólera e a indignação com o lugar onde nasceu e de onde, garante, preferiria manter distância. Sua revolta não poupa nada – da cerveja que os nativos costumam apreciar até o modelo de ensino – e vai crescendo numa escalada feroz. Asco se dá na forma de um relato que se desenvolve sem pausas, num único parágrafo, consolidando um texto de crueza perturbadora. Uma investida rara no fel que pode habitar a relação entre um homem e sua cidade. Foi com essa novela singular que o hondurenho Horácio Castellanos Moya conquistou reconhecimento internacional, e é com ela que enfim estreia no Brasil. Foi também com este livro - publicado originalmente em 1997 - que recebeu ameaças de morte e muitas críticas em El Salvador, país onde cresceu, ao ter mostrado, na voz de Vega, algumas das mazelas que assolam o lugar. Hoje, porém, o título vem se tornando, pouco a pouco, objeto de culto pelos jovens daquele país. Os méritos da obra extrapolam o conjunto de críticas sociais que expõe. Ao construir uma novela que se desenha inteira na reprodução de um relato oral – e, mais que isso, um monólogo furioso – Moya nos apresenta uma joia da literatura recente. Um texto que usa a linguagem coloquial, simples e direta – familiar – para esticar ao máximo a malha de perturbação que nasce nas contradições de uma nação. "O texto é um monólito, um jorro. Um desabafo que não pode ser interrompido", descreve Adriana Lunardi no posfácio do livro. E um engenho narrativo dos mais originais, onde a fúria do desabafo vai alternando diferentes velocidades, prendendo o leitor numa espiral vertiginosa e surpreendente.
Author: Horatio Moya Publisher: Biblioasis ISBN: 192684503X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 161
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As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet Assuming his identity, Sosa unleashes a reign of terror on San Salvador with his snake accomplices. A macabre high-speed romp, in which violence and comedy become almost indistinguishable.
Author: Lee Klein Publisher: Sagging Shorts ISBN: 9781944697822 Category : Languages : en Pages : 120
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Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. This autofiction by Lee Klein, framed by his attending a Sunn O))) concert in Philadelphia on March 18, 2017, two months after Trump's inauguration, is an opportunity for inquiry into a variety of subjects, including: anxiety, edibles, solitude, talent, self-realization, responsibility, dry ice, fog, Seasons 52, Guitar Center, effect pedals, improvising, paying attention, rearing children, raising fists, anticipating mass shootings, deleting Twitter, assassinating the president, public flatulence, private resistance, moral alignment, and the search for pure tone.
Author: Olaf Berwald Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1501351524 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 355
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In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)--one of the 20th century's most uniquely gifted writers--created a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His books never “tell a story” in the received sense. Instead, he rages on the page, he rants and spews vitriol about the moral failures of his homeland, Austria, in the long amnesiac aftermath of the Second World War. Yet this furious prose, seemingly shapeless but composed with unparalleled musicality, and taxing by conventional standards, has been powerfully echoed in many writers since Bernhard's death in 1989. These explorers have found in Bernhard's singular accomplishment new paths for the expression of life and truth. Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives examines the international mobilization of Bernhard's style. Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard's Austrian vision an international vision. This book tells that story.
Author: Toss Gascoigne Publisher: ANU Press ISBN: 1760463663 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 994
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Modern science communication has emerged in the twentieth century as a field of study, a body of practice and a profession—and it is a practice with deep historical roots. We have seen the birth of interactive science centres, the first university actions in teaching and conducting research, and a sharp growth in employment of science communicators. This collection charts the emergence of modern science communication across the world. This is the first volume to map investment around the globe in science centres, university courses and research, publications and conferences as well as tell the national stories of science communication. How did it all begin? How has development varied from one country to another? What motivated governments, institutions and people to see science communication as an answer to questions of the social place of science? Communicating Science describes the pathways followed by 39 different countries. All continents and many cultures are represented. For some countries, this is the first time that their science communication story has been told.
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Author: Horatio Moya
Author: Lee Klein
Author: Olaf Berwald
Author: Toss Gascoigne