Author: Horacio QuirogaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
South American Jungle Tales
Author: Horacio QuirogaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Feather Pillow
Author: Horacio QuirogaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781438794938
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Author: Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte
Author: Horacio QuirogaPublisher: Ediciones Colihue SRL
ISBN: 9789505633869
Category : Spanish fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories
Author: Horacio QuirogaPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299198343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
From the Publisher: Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Latin American writer.
The Seven Good Years
Author: Etgar KeretPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698166000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a “genius” (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life. What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There’s Lev’s insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar’s siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father’s shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoir—Etgar’s first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style—is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader
Author: Jennifer FrenchPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810142651
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Latin American Ecocultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present. Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical figures, including José Martí, Bartolomé de las Casas, Rubén Darío, and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women, indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the political, economic, and environmental history of the time and provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow. The editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s. They argue that various strands of environmental thought—recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian ontologies, and so forth—can be traced back through the centuries to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the Americas as an edenic “New World” and appropriated the bodies of enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
Anarchism in Latin America
Author: Ángel J. CappellettiPublisher: AK Press
ISBN: 1849352836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The available material in English discussing Latin American anarchism tends to be fragmentary, country-specific, or focused on single individuals. This new translation of Ángel Cappelletti's wide-ranging, country-by-country historical overview of anarchism's social and political achievements in fourteen Latin American nations is the first book-length regional history ever published in English. With a foreword by the translator. Ángel J. Cappelletti (1927–1995) was an Argentinian philosopher who taught at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela. He is the author of over forty works primarily investigating philosophy and anarchism. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University.
Anaconda
Author: Horacio QuirogaPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979223423
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 32
Book Description
Horacio Quiroga alcanzó gran repercusión entre la crítica y el público continental. Los cuentos aquí reunidos -aparecidos originalmente en publicaciones porteñas en los años anteriores- dan cuenta de un amplio periodo de su experiencia narrativa y vital: los primeros años en Buenos Aires, el deslumbramiento por la cinematografía, sus proyectos agrícolas en el Chaco, la profunda incursión en Misiones, el regreso a la capital. El relato epónimo es, quizás, uno de los más conocidos de la literatura latinoamericana. A través de sus páginas, quedan patente la admiración y la maravilla que sentía Quiroga por la selva y sus criaturas, al narrar magistralmente el encuentro de Anaconda con la bestia más temible de todas: el hombre
THE BLIND DEER
Author: オラシオキロガPublisher:
ISBN: 9784880129068
Category : Deer
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
"Nature gives abundant blessing, but it also has many dangers. The fawn, full of curiosity, goes out into the wild to find sweet honey in spite of her mother's cautious advice. The fawn is attacked by bees and loses her eyesight. Her mother is desperate to help her child ... but how?"--Jacket.