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A Dream Come True

The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

By: Juan Carlos Onetti

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A Dream Come True

The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

By: Juan Carlos Onetti

A Dream Come True collects the complete stories of Juan Carlos Onetti, presenting his existentialist, complex, and ironic style over the course of his writing career. Onetti was praised by Latin America's greatest authors, and regarded as an inventor of a new form and school of writing. Juan Carlos Onetti's A Dream Come True depicts a sharp, coherent, literary voice, encompassing Onetti's early stages of writing and his later texts. They span from a few pages in "Avenida de Mayo - Diagonal - Avenida de Mayo" to short novellas, like the celebrated detective story "The Face of Disgrace" and "Death and the Girl," an existential masterpiece that explores the complexity of violence and murder in the mythical town of Santa María. His stories create a world of writing which is both universal and highly local, mediating between philosophical characters and the quotidian melodrama of Uruguayan villages.

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1939810477

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A Dream Come True

The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

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1939810469

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God is Round

Tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs, and Scandals of the World's Favorite Game

By: Juan Villoro

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God is Round

Tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs, and Scandals of the World's Favorite Game

By: Juan Villoro

A brilliant, kaleidoscopic exploration of soccer—and the passion, hopes, rivalries, superstitions, and global solidarity it inspires—from award-winning author and Mexico’s leading sports journalist, Juan Villoro. On a planet where FIFA has more members than the United Nations and the World Cup is watched by more than three billion people, football is more than just a game. As revered author Juan Villoro argues in this passionate and compulsively readable tribute to the world’s favorite sport, football may be the most effective catalyst for panglobal unity at the time when we need it most. (Following global consensus, Villoro uses “football” rather than “soccer” in the book.) What was the greatest goal of all time? Why do the Hungarians have a more philosophical sense of defeat than the Mexicans? Do the dead play football? In essays ranging from incisive and irreverent portraits of Maradona, Messi, Ronaldo, Pelé, Zidane, and many more giants of the game to entertaining explorations of left-footedness and the number 10, Juan Villoro dissects the pleasure and pain of football fandom. God Is Round is a book for both fanatics and neophytes who long to feel the delirium of the faithful. Praise for God is Round “If you want to talk about soccer, go talk to Juan Villoro.” —Carlos Fuentes “In trying times like these, when the anguish and uncertainty can be almost too much to bear, Mexico turns to him, its philosopher-fanatic, to make sense of the seemingly nonsensical. With the nation’s hopes for the World Cup spiraling into doubt and chaos, Juan Villoro, one of Mexico’s most decorated and esteemed writers — who also happens to be a leading soccer analyst—comes charging down the metaphorical field to scold, explain and extract the lessons within.” —The New York Times “The literature of Juan Villoro…is opening up the path of the new Spanish novel of the millennium.” —Roberto Bolaño “[Villoro] has assumed the Octavio Paz mantle of Mexican public wise man of letters (though with none of Paz’s solemnity, for Villoro is as boyishly effusive, brimming with laughter and cleverness, as Paz was paternalistically dour—and, of course, Villoro, the author of the book God Is Round, may be the most fútbol-obsessed man alive)” —Francisco Goldman, The New Yorker Juan Villoro is Mexico’s most prolific, prize-winning author, playwright, journalist, and screenwriter. His books have been translated into multiple languages; he has received the Herralde Award in Spain for his novel El testigo, the Antonin Artaud award in France for Los culpables. His novel, Arrecife, was recently short-listed for the Rezzori Prize in Italy. Villoro lives in Mexico City and is a visiting lecturer at Yale and Princeton universities. Thomas Bunstead's translations from the Spanish include work by Eduardo Halfon and Yuri Herrera, Aixa de la Cruz's story “True Milk” in Best of European Fiction, and the forthcoming A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas (a co-translation with Anne McLean). A guest editor of a Words Without Borders feature on Mexico (March 2015), Thomas has also published his own writing in the Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, the Paris Review blog, 3ammagazine, Days of Roses, readysteadybook, and >kill author.

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234

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Restless Books

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1632060779

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9781632060778

Perramus

The City and Oblivion

By: Alberto Breccia,Juan Sasturain

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Perramus

The City and Oblivion

By: Alberto Breccia,Juan Sasturain

Fantagraphics collects the graphic novel Perramus ― winner of an Amnesty International prize ― in English for the first time. This graphic novel follows the existential odyssey of a political dissident. When he voluntarily loses his memory, he's dubbed "Perramus" from the brand of his raincoat. During his absurdist travels, he teams up with the gruff Cannelloni; a foreign aviator dubbed "The Enemy" by despot Mr. Whitesnow; and the blind author "Borges" (based on the real-life literary figure), who comes to be a guide. This motley crew journeys to outlandish locales where they encounter a variety of eccentric characters ― including a director of trailers for films that will never exist; a guerilla fbeforce of circus folk, clowns, and puppeteers; a tin-pot dictator with a vast fortune built on an empire of excrement; and Ronald Reagan. This highly anticipated collection is an act of resistance in and of itself ― it was created while Argentina's military dictatorship was still in power. Perramus is a cartooning tour de force, with a revolutionary message that remains vital to this day.

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Fantagraphics Books

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1683962907

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9781683962908

El astillero

By: Juan Carlos Onetti

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El astillero

By: Juan Carlos Onetti

Seix Barral inaugura la Biblioteca Onetti con la publicacion de El astillero, pieza clave del importante ciclo narrativo de Santa Maria, un espacio miticocuyos moradores alimentan gran parte de la produccion novelistica de Onetti. Enla presente novela, el protagonista regresa a la ciudad que lo expulsara de suseno, enfrentado a dos proyectos quimericos.Obra maestra de Onetti, El astillero instaura, en el espacio corroido dedepredacion y deterioro que enuncia su titulo, una alegoria de la condicionhumana que es o puede ser a la vez la alegoria de un pais y un tiempo concretosy una vision refleja de la esencial precariedad del hombre.B+?Entre sus novelas, probablemente es la mas equilibrada, la mas perfecta. Elmundo entero de Onetti y el de Santa Maria estan aqui, su fascinacion doble porla pureza y la corrupcion, por la dulzura de los suenos y la herrumbre siniestradel desengano y fracaso, todo resumido, concentrado en una pequena ciudadinexistente y en unos pocos personajes, sobre todo en Larsen, tambien apodadoJuntacadaveres o Junta, el heroe o contraheroe mas querido por Onetti, y tambienuno de los mejor perfilados, de los mas memorables en la literatura en espanoldel siglo xx.B; Antonio Munoz Molina.Juan Carlos Onetti nacio en Montevideo el 1o de julio de 1909. Entre sus obrasse destacan las novelas Tierra de nadie (1941; Seix Barral, 1979), Para estanoche (1943), La vida breve (1950), Juntacadaveres (1964; Seix Barral, 1978) yTiempo de abrazar (1974), El pozo (1939; Seix Barral, 1979), Los adioses (1953), Para una tumba sin nombre (1959; Seix Barral, 1979), El astillero (1961; SeixBarral, 2002), Dejemos hablar al viento (1979), Cuando entonces (1987) y Cuandoya no importe (1993).Tambien sobresale un considerable numero de relatosbreves, que le situan entre las figuras de mas fecunda y renovadora influenciade la narrativa contemporanea en lengua castellana. En 1980 obtuvo el PremioCervantes y en 1985 el Premio Nacional de Literatura del Uruguay. Murio enMadrid, en 1994.

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9507313567

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