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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2021Sara Paretsky
Detective fiction as trauma literature
by Cynthia Hamilton
Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than this. Her novels also illustrate the extent to which detective fiction acts as a literature of trauma, allowing Paretsky to address the politics of agency in ways that go beyond the personal, for trauma always has a social and a political dimension. Paretsky's work also exploits the way detective fiction mirrors the writing of history. Here, Paretsky uses the form to expose the partiality of historical accounts - whether they be personal, institutional, or national - that authorise 'forgetting' of a particularly insidious kind. Significantly, all these issues are explored within the framework of the traditional hard-boiled detective novel. As a result, Paretsky's achievement forces us to acknowledge the deeply subversive potential of detective fiction.
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Humanities & Social SciencesThe Gospel of Prosperity
Literary and critical perspectives about the science of getting right quick
by Luis Miguel Estrada
In 2020, amidst the whirlwind of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas from books about the science of becoming a millionaire returned to Luis Miguel Estrada whom, since he left a financial job, has dedicated himself fully to literature. In this book, he thinks some of the key questions raised by bestsellers from Napoleon Hill to Kiyosaki. Do we stop seeking money just because we pursue art? More importantly: regardless of what we do, how do we seek money? Why have narratives like positive thinking and the law of attraction become a universal language that gains strength during each economic crisis? Is there a link between bestsellers about the science of getting rich and great universal literature? This book attempts to answer these questions, beginning with the origins of books on becoming a millionaire, which delve into the agile 19th-century United States, transition through the fast-paced turn of the century, and explode in the years after the Great Depression. The journey continues with examples of wild successes (real-life fraudsters like Elizabeth Holmes or fictional criminals like Walter White from Breaking Bad) that prompt us to question the influence of success-at-any-cost ideas on popular culture, as well as their ethical limits. How can one reconcile readings, cultural products, and experiences that seem so distant? The broader reading audience responds more to "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill than to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Is there a way to read them alongside each other and emerge renewed from the experience? This book invites you on that adventure.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2010El Camino by Miguel Delibes
by Catherine Davies, Jeremy Squires
Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green movement. With a blend of hilarity, satire, pathos and tragedy, Delibes artfully explores the process of crossing boundaries in pursuit of maturity and social advancement, whilst also implying that real education is the unfolding of the human heart among friends and sweethearts within a shared social and natural space. This new annotated version of the text comprises an introductory essay discussing green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish peasantry under Franco, and the function of the novel's subtly orchestrated comedy. It also contains explanatory notes on the text, discussion topics and an extensive Spanish-English glossary. This edition is intended primarily for English-speaking students of Spanish literature and culture at school and university. ;
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2024Los galgos, los galgos
by Sara Gallardo
There are beginnings in literature that encapsulate in a few words the entire conflict and grandeur of a work. Thus begins Los galgos, los galgos: “From my father, I inherited a house, half a field, and some money. I cried a lot over his death, but I can’t say that the inheritance took me by surprise. Sitting in the morning light, toward the end of the wake, I suggested to my brother that I would exchange my house for his part of the field, and as he immediately agreed and I had to sign a lot of papers, I realized I had made a bad deal.” These are the words of Julián, the protagonist and narrator of this novel, which can certainly be read as a story of love and heartbreak, but is so much more: an essay on the erosion of our convictions by time, a subtle commentary on the customs and practices of a class, and the impact of those customs and practices on certain fantasies and dissatisfaction, as well as a representation of the countryside, animals and plants like no other in Argentine literature. First published in 1968, Los galgos, los galgos won the Municipal Literature Prize and is considered a major work within Sara Gallardo’s extraordinary oeuvre. Written in a state of grace, infused with a melancholic sense of fatality but imbued with intelligent and refined humor, this is a novel that leaves an indelible mark, profound admiration, and eternal sorrow.
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February 1999Der Cimarrón
Die Lebensgeschichte eines entflohenen Sklaven aus Cuba, von ihm selbst erzählt
by Miguel Barnet, Miguel Barnet, Hildegard Baumgart, Lisa Grüneisen, Heinz Rudolf Sonntag, Alfredo Chacón, Miguel Barnet
Miguel Barnet und eine Gruppe von Ethnologen besuchten den hundertdreijährigen Esteban Montejo. Sie begegneten einem hochintelligenten, eigensinnigen Mann voller Erinnerungen an längst Vergessenes, Erinnerungen aus dem Leben der Sklaven, aus der Zeit der Abschaffung der Sklaverei auf Cuba und des Befreiungskrieges gegen die spanischen Kolonialisten. Montejo ist ein Cimarrón, ein entlaufener Sklave, der lange Jahre in absoluter Einsamkeit in den Bergen gelebt hat. Später schloß er sich den Aufständischen an, die gegen die Invasion Cubas durch die Amerikaner kämpften. Der Cimarrón entstand nach Tonbandaufnahmen von Gesprächen, die Miguel Barnet über Wochen und Monate mit Esteban Montejo geführt hat. Das überraschendste daran ist die bilderreiche Sprache dieses ehemaligen Sklaven. Von unseren Augen vollzieht sich die lebendige Vermischung von afrikanischen Mythen mit dem Katholizismus zu einer der afro-cubanischen Religionen, wie sie Barnet in seinem Buch Cultos afro-cubanos beschreibt. Esteban Montejo schildert alles von seinem persönlichen Standpunkt aus: das Leben als Sklave auf der Zuckerrohrplantage, das Leben in den Bergen, den Krieg, die Zeit, als die Spanier wohl vertrieben, aber durch die Nordamerikaner ersetzt waren. »Dieses Buch«, schrieb Lévi-Strauss, »eröffnet eine völlig neue Gattung der ethnologischen Literatur. Ihr Kennzeichen: eine Vertrautheit mit der Wirklichkeit der untersuchten Ethnie, die weit über alles früher Versuchte hinausgeht«. Die Lebensgeschichte von Esteban Montejo wurde 1971 unter dem Titel El Cimarrón von Hans Werner Henze vertont.
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2020La rosa en el viento
by Sara Gallardo
"The rose that is destroyed in the wind lets its petals fly in a burned light," says this hallucinatory novel by Sara Gallardo, her latest publication, an extraordinary culmination for a dazzling, always precise, always unique, always captivating body of work. In La rosa en el viento, all the characters move, embarking on journeys that are sometimes physical and sometimes emotional, but in every case, they take them far from whom they were at the beginning. Olaf, a Swedish immigrant who has escaped a terrible episode in Italy, becomes a sheep breeder in Patagonia alongside Andrei, a Russian journalist who, in turn, seeks to win over an unconquerable woman, whose story reaches us in flashes, much like that of Oo, the Indian woman bought by Andrei, or Lina, who follows Andrei south, and Olga, who two generations earlier followed Alexis the revolutionary to an America that, for these characters, is both a land of promises and forgotten dreams that never truly materialize. Kaleidoscopic, polyphonic, synthetic, and modern, La rosa en el viento brings together all of Sara Gallardo's talent for storytelling and emotional impact, and it demands that we read it again.
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September 2015Deine Briefe lege ich unter die Matratze
Ein Briefwechsel 1971 - 2002
by Astrid Lindgren, Sara Schwardt, Lena Törnqvist, Birgitta Kicherer, Steffi Pelzl
"Deine Briefe lege ich unter die Matratze" ist ein tief berührendes Werk, das aus einer einzigartigen Brieffreundschaft zwischen der legendären Kinderbuchautorin Astrid Lindgren und der jungen Sara Schwardt hervorgeht. Beginnend mit einem Brief von der damals zwölfjährigen Sara an Lindgren im Jahr 1971, entwickelt sich über die Jahre ein außergewöhnlicher Austausch, der nicht nur Einblicke in persönliche Gedanken und Erlebnisse beider bietet, sondern auch eine Generationen übergreifende Verbundenheit offenbart. Trotz eines Altersunterschieds von 50 Jahren teilen sie ihre Sichtweisen auf das Leben, die Liebe und menschliche Beziehungen, was diesen Briefwechsel zu einem Zeugnis tiefer Menschlichkeit und Verständnis macht. Bereichert wird das Buch durch zahlreiche Fotos und Faksimiles der Originalbriefe, die einen authentischen und sehr persönlichen Blick in das Leben und den Charakter von Astrid Lindgren gewähren. Einzigartiger Einblick in das Leben von Astrid Lindgren: Dieses Buch bietet eine seltene Gelegenheit, die persönlichen Gedanken und Ansichten einer der beliebtesten Kinderbuchautorinnen aller Zeiten zu entdecken. Tiefe, generationenübergreifende Freundschaft: Eine berührende Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Freundschaft, die zeigt, wie zwei Menschen unterschiedlichen Alters einander verstehen und bereichern können. Umfangreiches Material: Angereichert mit Fotos und Faksimiles der Originalbriefe, bietet das Buch einen authentischen und visuell ansprechenden Einblick in den Briefwechsel. Inspirierend und bewegend: Die Offenheit und Ehrlichkeit, mit der Sara Schwardt und Astrid Lindgren ihre Gedanken und Gefühle teilen, macht dieses Buch zu einem inspirierenden Leseerlebnis. Hoher literarischer Wert: Die Kritiken heben die literarische Qualität und die menschliche Tiefe des Buches hervor, was es zu einem wertvollen Bestandteil jeder Bibliothek macht. Empfohlen für alle Altersgruppen: Obwohl es die Korrespondenz zwischen einer Erwachsenen und einem Kind darstellt, ist das Buch sowohl für Jugendliche als auch für Erwachsene eine bereichernde Lektüre. Pädagogisch wertvoll: Das Buch wird empfohlen für alle, die mit Kindern, Jugendlichen oder Familien arbeiten, da es wertvolle Einblicke in die Gedankenwelt junger Menschen und die Bedeutung einer Mentorfigur bietet.
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Fiction2015Pantalones azules
by Sara Gallardo
Pantalones azules is a novel with a deceptively simple appearance. As Leopoldo Brizuela has noted, fifty years after its first publication, it "reveals itself as the recounting of a process infinitely more subtle" than an impossible love affair, which was the key interpretation by its contemporaries. On the contrary, Pantalones azules is a story of multiple disillusionments: those of Alejandro, the young protagonist from a well-to-do family, Catholic and anti-Semitic, who encounters the limits of his convictions upon meeting Irma, an immigrant with a Jewish mother who lost her parents in the European war; those of Irma, who receives not compassion but the inhuman brutality of Alejandro’s convictions; and those of Elisa, Alejandro’s virgin fiancée, who must decide her position within the patriarchal family structure and whether to accept her role as a future wife subjected to the tacit violence of her fiancé. But more than a story of love and disillusionment, Pantalones azules is a prodigious representation, for its freshness and vitality, of the distances that separate social groups, cultures, generations, and genders within the same time and place. A prime example of Sara Gallardo’s extraordinary ability to bring her characters to life with wisdom, humor, a touch of malice, and a surprising economy of resources, this second novel by the author also broadens her perspective on the landscape: the countryside, the city, and the river are depicted here with unusual accuracy, possible only for someone who has experienced landscape and language as a unique amalgam, a defining characteristic of her works. First published in 1963, Pantalones azules has circulated only minimally since then. Fiordo is proud to bring this superb novel by one of Argentina’s greatest writers back to readers.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2015Sara Paretsky
by Cynthia Hamilton, Sharon Monteith, Nahem Yousaf, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2015
Sara Paretsky
by Cynthia Hamilton, Sharon Monteith, Nahem Yousaf
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November 1983Das Lied der Rachel
Mit einem Nachwort von Miguel Barnet. Aus dem Spanischen übersetzt von Wilhelm Plackmeyer. Das Nachwort von Miguel Barnet übersetzte Monika López aus dem Spanischen
by Miguel Barnet, Wilhelm Plackmeyer, Miguel Barnet
»Rachel«, eine mit allen Wassern gewaschene Varietésängerin, strebt früh nach Höherem, ohne es jedoch zu erreichen. »La bella de Alhambra« schwelgt in Banalitäten und Kitsch, ist – mit liberalen Einschränkungen – Rassistin, weil ihre Kundschaft rassistisch ist, orientiert sich an Horoskopen, beschäftigt sich mit fliegenden Untertassen. Ihr Bericht läßt die stickige Atmosphäre der »belle époque« des vorrevolutionären Cuba nachempfinden, vermischt die Schilderung der klassischen Straßenschlachten zwischen einheimischen und französischen Zuhältern im Viertel San Isidro, des Rassenkrieges von 1912 und der »toten Zeit« zwischen den Zuckerrohrernten mit Kosmetikkniffen, Theaterklatsch und dem täglichen Leben der Unterwelt. Nach der Revolution von 1959 entwickeln sich die Dinge ungünstig für »Rachel«: die »Häuser«, die sie mittlerweile in besagtem Viertel besitzt, werden liquidiert, ihre Karriere als »freie Unternehmerin« ist beendet.
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March 2016Bell Tower and Drum Tower
by Liu Xinwu
A story within one day – from 5 a. m. to 5 p. m. A vivid picture of secular life in Beijing. Winner of Mao Dun Literature Prize. Everything begins in an archaic quadrangle dwelling in Beijing, where Xue Jiyue’s mother gets up early to prepare for the son’s wedding banquet.Other characters show up one after another. After narrating their behaviors during the day, the author goes back and tells about their past, with a special concern about the influences from vicissitudes of time, especially how the Cultural Revolution changed those individuals’ courses of life.The Bell Tower and Drum Tower stand there still, witnessing all of those earthshaking changes.
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May 1997Alec und Sara
Über Freundschaft, Liebe und Zärtlichkeit - Sexulaerziehung konkret
by Fiederle, Xaver
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