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Save Twilight
Julio Cortazar
The power of Eros, the enduring beauty of art, a love-hate nostalgia for his Argentine homeland, the bonds of friendship and the tragic folly of politics are some of the themes of Save Twilight. Informed by his immersion in world literature, music, art, and history, and most of his own emotional geography, Cortazar's poetry traces his paradoxical evolution from provincial Argentinean sophisticate to cosmopolitan Parisian Romantic, always maintaining the sense of astonishment of an artist surprised by life.
Ya no será
Idea Vilariño · 2020
"Se incorporan a Poesía Portátil los versos de Idea Vilariño, una de las poetas latinoamericanas más destacadas del siglo XX. Directa y sin artificios, así es la poesía que desde muy joven cultivó Idea Vilariño. La muerte temprana de sus padres y su hermano mayor la sumieron en un estado de melancolía que atraviesa toda su obra poética y la dota de una sensibilidad especial. Algunos de los temas que plasmó en sus versos son el sinsentido de la vida, la naturaleza humana o el amor: esa fuerza incontrolable que todo lo anega y que le hizo dedicar algunos de sus poemas más descarnados a Juan Carlos Onetti, con quien mantuvo un vínculo pasional. Solitaria y reservada, reivindicó la figura de la mujer tanto en sus escritos poéticos como en sus otras producciones. Idea Vilariño formó parte de la generación del 45 uruguaya, junto con Mario Benedetti o Ida Vitale."--Book Depository description.
The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories (The Schocken Kafka Library)
Franz Kafka · 1995
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect.<br/><br/>To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.”<br/><br/>“Kafka’s survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: ‘With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father’s Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.’ There is a sense in which Kafka’s Jewish question (‘What have I in common with Jews?’) has become everybody’s question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. We’re all insects, all Ungeziefer, now.” —Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth and On Beauty
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Lana Del Rey · 2020
Alejandra Pizarnik Prosa completa / Alejandra Pizarnik Complete Prose (Spanish Edition)
Alejandra Pizarnik · 2025
Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges · 1999
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s, Shakespeare’s Memory—Jorge Luis Borges returned again and again to his celebrated themes: dreams, duels, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gauchos, knife fighters, tigers, and the elusive nature of identity itself. Playfully experimenting with ostensibly subliterary genres, he took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics; he took fantasy writing and made it, with its questioning and reinventing of everyday reality, central to the craft of fiction; he took the literary essay and put it to use reviewing wholly imaginary books. Bringing together for the first time in English all of Borges’s magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all who have long loved Borges, and a superb introduction to the master’s work for all who have yet to discover this singular genius. For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
