New world, new words, recent writing from the Americas : a bilingual anthology / edited and with an Introduction by Thomas Christensen ; foreword by Gregory Rabassa

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Two lines world libraryPublication details: San Francisco : Center of the Art of Translation , 2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 263 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781931883139
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • LAS 860.8 NEW
LOC classification:
  • PQ7087.E5 N494 2006
Contents:
Day and night / Mónica Lavín ; tr. C. M. Mayo -- Scardanelli speaks (excerpts) / Francisco Hernández ; tr. Elizabeth Bell -- Vision out of the corner of one eye / Luisa Valenzuela Hernández ; tr. Helen Lane -- Taking over the street / Manlio Argueta ; tr. Barbara Paschke -- The ghost of the pig / René Ariza ; tr. Michael Koch -- Prism / Pura López Colomé. ; tr. Forrest Gander -- Survival : eight stanzas of commentary on the words of Buddha / Mirko Lauer ; tr. John Oliver Simon -- The light, hermano, the light / Sigfredo Ariel ; tr. John Oliver -- Vitraux of exile / Luisa Futoransky ; tr. Jason Weiss -- The saint / Gabriel García Márques ; tr. Elizabeth Grossman -- The journey / Edgar Brau ; tr. Donald Yates -- The uprooted / Christina Peri Rossi ; tr. Sean Higgins -- A ship's passing / Bárbara Jacobs ; tr. Susan Ouriou -- 4. To dress a shadow ; Hopscotch (excerpts) ; Continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar ; tr. Thomas Christensen, Gregory Rabassa and Paul Blackburn -- A rosary for Raquel / Estela Davis ; tr. Bruce Berger -- A Baroque cell / David Huerta ; tr. Mark Schafer / The end of madness (excerpts) / Jorge Volpi ; tr. Suzanne Jill Levine -- Palinuro of Mexico / Fernando del Paso ; tr. Elisabeth Plaister -- The Wolf, the forest and the new man ; The wolf, the woods and the new man / Senel Paz ; tr. Thomas Christensen and Peter Bush -- Three trapped tigers (exerpts) / Guillermo Cabrera Infante ; tr. Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine -- 4. Fertile misremembrance : translating Levertov's Neruda / John Felstiner.
Summary: This fully bilingual (Spanish/English) anthology of Latin American literature showcases the region's enormous vitality and variety of writing. New World/New Words includes selections by widely celebrated writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, and Senel Paz, as well as work by emerging authors just beginning to make their mark in the English-speaking world. The collection features many of today's leading translators, several of whom are also distinguished poets and writiers.
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Day and night / Mónica Lavín ; tr. C. M. Mayo -- Scardanelli speaks (excerpts) / Francisco Hernández ; tr. Elizabeth Bell -- Vision out of the corner of one eye / Luisa Valenzuela Hernández ; tr. Helen Lane -- Taking over the street / Manlio Argueta ; tr. Barbara Paschke -- The ghost of the pig / René Ariza ; tr. Michael Koch -- Prism / Pura López Colomé. ; tr. Forrest Gander -- Survival : eight stanzas of commentary on the words of Buddha / Mirko Lauer ; tr. John Oliver Simon -- The light, hermano, the light / Sigfredo Ariel ; tr. John Oliver -- Vitraux of exile / Luisa Futoransky ; tr. Jason Weiss -- The saint / Gabriel García Márques ; tr. Elizabeth Grossman -- The journey / Edgar Brau ; tr. Donald Yates -- The uprooted / Christina Peri Rossi ; tr. Sean Higgins -- A ship's passing / Bárbara Jacobs ; tr. Susan Ouriou -- 4. To dress a shadow ; Hopscotch (excerpts) ; Continuity of parks / Julio Cortázar ; tr. Thomas Christensen, Gregory Rabassa and Paul Blackburn -- A rosary for Raquel / Estela Davis ; tr. Bruce Berger -- A Baroque cell / David Huerta ; tr. Mark Schafer / The end of madness (excerpts) / Jorge Volpi ; tr. Suzanne Jill Levine -- Palinuro of Mexico / Fernando del Paso ; tr. Elisabeth Plaister -- The Wolf, the forest and the new man ; The wolf, the woods and the new man / Senel Paz ; tr. Thomas Christensen and Peter Bush -- Three trapped tigers (exerpts) / Guillermo Cabrera Infante ; tr. Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine -- 4. Fertile misremembrance : translating Levertov's Neruda / John Felstiner.

This fully bilingual (Spanish/English) anthology of Latin American literature showcases the region's enormous vitality and variety of writing. New World/New Words includes selections by widely celebrated writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, and Senel Paz, as well as work by emerging authors just beginning to make their mark in the English-speaking world. The collection features many of today's leading translators, several of whom are also distinguished poets and writiers.

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