Ilan Stavans je profesorem latinskoamerické a latinské kultury na Amherst College. Jako oceněný spisovatel a moderátor veřejnoprávní televize se jeho práce zabývá střetáváním kultur a jazykovou dynamikou. Jeho psaní zkoumá složité identity a kulturní krajiny, které vznikají na pomezí různých světů. Stavans přináší pronikavý pohled na zkušenosti Hispánců a jejich vliv na americkou společnost.
Sixteen master translators have chosen their favorite stories from Latin America. Writers and translators include Edith Grossman, Helen R. Lane, Augusto Monterroso, Gregory Rabassa, Alfonso Reyes, Hardie St. Martin, and Luisa Valenzuela. An introductory essay on translation by Ilan Stavans and an epilogue by Margaret Sayers Peden provide entertaining food for thought.
This anthology presents a rich collection of 20th-century Latin American poetry, featuring works in both Spanish and Portuguese. It showcases diverse voices and styles, reflecting the cultural and historical contexts of the region. The bilingual format allows readers to appreciate the nuances of the original language while engaging with the themes and emotions conveyed by the poets. This compilation serves as an essential resource for anyone interested in the literary heritage of Latin America.
Exploring the unique characteristics of the Mexican essay, this collection highlights how it blends fact and fiction, challenging traditional boundaries of truth. Curated by Lee Gutkind, it features fifteen essays from Mexican, Mexican American, and Latin American writers who skillfully navigate the complexities of style and form. This work reveals a multifaceted vision of Mexico, demonstrating that creative nonfiction transcends its American roots and showcases a rich tapestry of narrative that intertwines history, mythology, and personal expression.
Stavans's Ongoing Quest to Find a Convergence Between the Personal and Historical
A international collection of poems celebrating the beauty of poetry in different languages.
The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as a funny, playful, deeply human, and thoroughly modern writer.
Most famously depicted as the 300-pound, pill-popping Samoan attorney in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta's wild, moving first book, originally published in 1972, reveals a man of astonishing variety. A converted Baptist missionary in Panama, bar hopper, psychiatric patient, struggling writer, heartbroken lover, great imposter, connoisseur of excess, Chicano activist, Brown Buffalo - Acosta did it all, then disappeared like a puff of smoke off the coast of Mazatlan, Mexico in the spring of 1974.
The biography delves into the life of García Márquez, offering an in-depth exploration of his experiences and influences leading up to the release of his iconic work, 100 Years of Solitude. It captures the pivotal moments and personal stories that shaped his literary voice, providing readers with a rich understanding of the author’s journey and the cultural context surrounding his writing.
"An in-depth, thorough exploration of modern Jewish literature from 1492 to the 21st century, rotating around the concept of "aterritoriality" to appreciate the diasporic journey Jews have embarked on across geographic and linguistic spheres from 1492 to the present. At the centre of it are canonical figures like Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, Bruno Schulz, Anne Frank, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Jacobo Timerman, Moacyr Scliar, and Susan Sontag. Unlike the output of other national literatures, Jewish literature doesn't have a fixed address. As a result, its practitioners are at once insiders and outsiders"--
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge.Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.