Starts at 6:30PM PST and 9:30PM EST Celebrating the release of Juan Carlos Onetti’s A Dream Come True, translated by Katherine Silver and published by Archipelago Books, Aaron Shulman joins Katherine Silver in conversation for a virtual event cohosted with DIESEL, A Bookstore. You can register for this free online event here. Katherine Silver is […]
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Robert Croll and Alicia Borinsky on Hebe Uhart’s Animals
Please join us on Tuesday, November 2 at 2PM EST for a virtual conversation between Robert Croll and Alicia Borinsky, hosted by The Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University. They’ll be discussing Hebe Uhart’s collection Animals, translated from the Spanish by Croll. Animals tells of […]
Robert Croll and Alejandro de Acosta at Malaprop’s
Join us on Thursday, June 22nd at 6 PM EST for a conversation between Robert Croll and Alejandro de Acosta, hosted by Malaprop’s Bookstore! They’ll discuss Croll’s translation of Animals, a collection of Hebe Uhart’s cronicas, published on June 22nd. Hebe Uhart’s Animals tells of piglets that snack on crackers, parrots that rehearse their words at night, southern screamers […]
Katherine Silver in Conversation with Mauro Javier Cárdenas
9:00 pm EST! Please join us for a virtual City Lights event celebrating the release of A Dream Come True by Juan Carlos Onetti, translated by Katharine Silver and published by Archipelago, and The Word of the Speechless: Selected Stories by Julio Ramón Ribeyro, edited and translated from the Spanish by Katharine Silver, with an introduction by […]
Martina Broner in conversation with Benjamin Kunkel
Please join us at McNally Jackson to hear translator Martina Broner and writer Benjamin Kunkel discuss Antonio Di Benedetto’s Nest in the Bones. Antonio Di Benedetto wrote with constant poetic innovation. His genre-defying stories, often dark and unexpectedly moving, explore the space between imagination and reality, tragedy and melodrama, civilization and barbarism. Nest in the Bones attests […]
"Diary of Andrés Fava" from Anderson Tepper in The New York Times Book Review
Diary of Andrés Fava 2005-06-05 This previously unpublished portion of an early work by Cortázar is actually a fragment of a fragment. Ostensibly the daily jottings of Andrés Fava, a peripheral character in the novel Final Exam, the text offers a whirlwind voyage through Cortázar’s mind. Written in 1950 and set in an eerie, fog-bound […]
A Review of Diary of Andrés Fava from The Complete Review
Diary of Andrés Fava was written at the same time as Cortázar’s Final Exam, in which Andrés Fava is one of the major figures. Cortázar left the diary out of Final Exam, but it’s a neat complementary text to the novel. The diary is less another account of the events in the novel; instead, it provides a […]
A Review of Diary of Andrés Fava from Stephen Kessler in The Redwood Coast Review
Noted above as one of the foremost exponents of the long novel for his astonishing Hopscotch, the Argentine Cortázar (1914-1984) is also a master of the short story, and of other brief proses that defy category. Andres Fava’s Diary is a kind of appendix to Cortázar’s earliest, but posthumously published, novel, Final Exam. Fava being one to that […]
A review of From the Observatory from Jason Weiss in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
from Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Issue 84, No. 1, 2012 136-137 by Jason Weiss Published in 1972, Prose del observatorio was unique in Cortázar’s oeuvre both for its subject and form, while remaining true to his indomitable spirit. In eighty pages, the book comprises an elusive poetic essay built from two interwoven […]
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Jai Singh’s observatory in Jaipur, India. Taken by Julio Cortazar in collaboration with Antonio Galvez