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		<title>New Adolfo Bioy Casares Book Apearing in Spain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the Adolfo Bioy Casares completists Spain&#8217;s Páginas de Espuma is publishing a book of photos and a diary he kept during a 1960 trip to Brazil. I don&#8217;t know what the photos are like, but you can read the publisher&#8217;s press release. La mirada de un viajero, Adolfo Bioy Casares en Brasil El 6 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2389&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the Adolfo Bioy Casares completists Spain&#8217;s Páginas de Espuma is publishing a book of photos and a diary he kept during a 1960 trip to Brazil. I don&#8217;t know what the photos are like, but you can read the publisher&#8217;s <a href="http://paginasdeespuma.blogspot.com/2010/08/lanzamiento-de-unos-dias-en-el-brasil.html" target="_blank">press release</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>La mirada de un viajero, Adolfo Bioy Casares en Brasil</strong><br />
<strong>El 6 de septiembre se realizará su  lanzamiento mundial y se inagurará en Madrid una exposición que recoge  las fotografías del libro</strong></p></blockquote>
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<div>Madrid.- El próximo 6 de septiembre se  realizará el lanzamiento mundial del libro Unos días en el Brasil  (Diario de viaje), del escritor argentino Adolfo Bioy Casares, y con  posfacio del editor y traductor Michel Lafon. El libro será publicado  simultáneamente desde Argentina y España por las editoriales La Compañía  y Páginas de Espuma, que suman de este modo un título más a su labor en  común. Fruto de esta colaboración, en septiembre títulos como Lady  Susan, de Jane Austen, o Nabokov y su Lolita, de Nina Berberova estarán  disponibles en las libreráis españolas, mientras en las argentinas lo  estarán El último minuto, de Andrés Neuman o Tres por cinco, de Luisa  Valenzuela.</div>
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<blockquote><p>Las páginas prácticamente  inéditas de Unos días en el Brasil (Diario de viaje) recogen el diario  de un viaje en 1960, motivado por la invitación que Bioy Casares recibe  de la organización del congreso del PEN Club en Brasil. Unos días en el  Brasil recorre aquellos días de 1960 que Bioy estuvo entre las ciudades  de Río de Janeiro, São Paulo y una incipiente Brasilia, de la que se  celebra su 50º Aniversario como capital de Brasil. Testimonio de uno de  los autores claves de la literatura en castellano del siglo XX, este  diario se completa con una serie de fotos inéditas de este viaje.  Coincidiendo con el lanzamiento, se celebrará una exposición titulada  Basilia 1960. Fotografías inéditas de Adolfo Bioy Casares en la Galería  Guayasamín de Casa de América en Madrid del lunes 6 de septiembre al  domingo 19. La construcción de la ciudad comenzó en 1956, siendo Ludo  Costa el principal urbanista y Oscar Niemeyer el principal arquitecto.  En 1960, se convirtió oficialmente en la capital de Brasil. Junto con  Putrajaya (la capital administrativa de Malasia) y Naypydaw (la nueva  capital de Birmania) es una de las ciudades capitales de más reciente  construcción en el mundo. El 8 de septiembre a las 20 horas será la  presentación del libro en Casa de América. El acto contará con la  presencia de Eduardo Berti, Juan Casamayor y muy especialmente del  editor, traductor y ensayista francés Michel Lafon, que esos días  concederá entrevistas. Según palabras recogidas en su posfacio, el  diario tiene un cometido íntimo y personal del autor &#8220;para seguir  transformando cualquier día de su vida en un viaje y una aventura,  cualquier lugar del mundo en una isla encantada, donde todo se vuelve  posible, e incluso deseable&#8221;. Lafon mantiene que Bioy &#8221; no sabe por qué  aceptó la invitación, no tiene nada que decirles a los otros invitados,  rechaza las amistades obligadas y los ejercicios impuestos, odia la  retórica vacía, no quiere hablar en público&#8221;. Aun así, Lafon acaba  preguntándose: &#8220;Viajar para escribir, escribir para olvidarse de que uno  está viajando, y para recordarlo después. ¿Y si Bioy fuera el mayor  diarista del continente?&#8221;.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Lit Podcasts: 9/2/10: John Williams, Adam Langer, James Mauro, Ayelet Waldman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leonard Lopate and Morris Dickstein, Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center, discusses John Williams: author of the 1965 novel, Stoner. Novelist Adam Langer talks about his latest work, The Thieves of Manhattan, which serves as: a comical literary caper, an exploration of authenticity and fakery, and a tribute to books. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2372&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/aug/25/underappreciated-john-williams/" target="_blank">Leonard Lopate </a>and Morris Dickstein,  Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre at the CUNY Graduate  Center, discusses John Williams: author of the 1965 novel, <a title="buy this book at Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590171993/wnycorg-20" target="_blank"><em>Stoner</em></a>.</p>
<p>Novelist <a href="http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/aug/25/adam-langers-em-thieves-manhattanem/" target="_blank">Adam Langer</a> talks about his latest work, <a title="buy this book at Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400068916/wnycorg-20" target="_blank"><em>The Thieves of Manhattan</em></a>, which serves as: a comical literary caper, an exploration of authenticity and fakery, and a tribute to books.</p>
<p><a href="http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/aug/24/twilight-world-tomorrow/" target="_blank">James Mauro</a> discusses the 1939 World’s Fair, which took place at an important  turning point for America—the window of time between the Great  Depression and World War II (at Leonard Lopate).</p>
<p><a href="http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/aug/17/ayelet-waldmans-emred-hook-roadem/" target="_blank">Ayelet Waldman</a> talks about her latest novel, <em><a title="buy this book at Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385517866/wnycorg-20" target="_blank"><em>Red Hook Road</em></a></em>. (at Leonard Lopate)</p>
<p>This is a little old, but interesting. <span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/colinmarshall/MOI_Chris_Wickham.mp3" target="_blank">Colin Marshall</a> (mp3) talks to Chris Wickham, Chichele Professor of Medieval History at Oxford University, Fellow of All Souls College and author of <em>The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000</em>, the latest in Penguin’s sprawling History of Europe series.</span></span></p>
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		<title>Ricardo Piglia, Almudena Grandes, Mario Vargas Llosa and Others on Their New Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[El Pais has an article about the new books that are coming out from Spanish language authors this fall. Among works by Ricardo Piglia, Almudena Grandes, Mario Vargas Llosa there will also be a book by Adolfo Bioy Casares that compiles his photos from a trip to Brazil in 1960. Mostly the article is authors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2386&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Cita/literaria/espanol/elpepuculbab/20100828elpbabpor_3/Tes" target="_blank">El Pais</a> has an article about the new books that are coming out from Spanish language authors this fall. Among works by Ricardo Piglia, Almudena Grandes, Mario Vargas Llosa there will also be a book by Adolfo Bioy Casares that compiles his photos from a trip to Brazil in 1960. Mostly the article is authors talkinga bout their works, but interesting none the less.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong> 1. ¿Por qué ha elegido ese tema o argumento para el nuevo libro?</strong></p>
<p><strong>2. ¿Cuándo y cómo fue el momento de inspiración para escribir sobre eso? </strong></p>
<p><strong>Ricardo Piglia</strong></p>
<p><em>Blanco nocturno </em>(Anagrama)</p>
<p><strong>1.</strong> En el origen estuvo la figura de Luca y la leyenda familiar; pensé la  novela centrada en un héroe enfrentado al destino y trabajé una trama  con muchos personajes secundarios y varios conflictos. Traté de buscar  un registro digamos épico. ¿Cómo sería hoy escribir una historia épica?  Ese fue para mí el desafío del libro.</p>
<p><strong>2. </strong>Imaginé la historia hace mucho tiempo, antes de publicar <em>Prisión perpetua.</em> Escribí una primera versión y la dejé, luego la retomé y la reescribí y  la volví a dejar&#8230; Me gusta -aunque no lo recomiendo- ese modo de  escribir porque las historias cambian, como si -al decantarse-  encontraran su propia inspiración.</p>
<p><strong>Almudena Grandes</strong></p>
<p><em>Inés y la alegría</em> (Tusquets)</p>
<p><strong>1</strong> y <strong>2.</strong> No estoy muy segura de haber escogido el tema de <em>Inés y la alegría.</em> Más bien, la invasión de Arán me escogió a mí. Cuando leí que un  ejército de cuatro mil hombres había invadido el valle en otoño de 1944,  y que lo había ocupado durante nueve días a la espera de un apoyo  aliado que nunca llegó, me costó trabajo aceptar que semejante episodio  permaneciera en el olvido. Averigüé algo más sobre el origen y las  características de aquella aventura, y descubrí a un personaje  irresistible, Jesús Monzón, moviendo los hilos de una trama más  fascinante que cualquiera que yo hubiera podido inventar.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Urdu Fiction from India &#8211; Words Without Borders September 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words Without Borders&#8217; September 2010 issue features Urdu fiction from India. This September we’re treated to the finest in new Urdu fiction from India. Curated by distinguished translator Muhammad Umar Memon, this stunning collection is the perfect primer on the fantastic and varied forms of contemporary Urdu writing. Naiyer Masud, master of the Urdu short [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2391&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Words Without Borders&#8217;<a href="http://wordswithoutborders.org/issue/september-2010" target="_blank"> September 2010 issue</a> features Urdu fiction from India.</p>
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<blockquote><p>This September we’re treated to the finest in new Urdu fiction from  India. Curated by distinguished translator Muhammad Umar Memon, this  stunning collection is the perfect primer on the fantastic and varied  forms of contemporary Urdu writing. Naiyer Masud, master of the Urdu  short story and Saraswati Samman award winner, follows the travails of a  young runaway given refuge by a mysterious stranger. Celebrated fiction  writer Qurratulain Hyder tracks the fortunes of a young woman who  jettisons family and home on an intercontinental romp, with the past hot  on her heels. Trailblazing feminist writer Ismat Chughtai gives an  unsparing account of the goings-on in a maternity ward, while Anwar  Khan’s protagonist discovers the comforting solitude of a shop window.  Award-winning journalist Sajid Rashid sorts through a train explosion in  a tale told by a severed head, and Siddiq Aalam listens in on two  grumpy old men in a Kolkata park. Rounding out the issue, Sahitya  Akademi Award winner Rajinder Singh Bedi gives a lesson in the art of  erotic statuary, while Zakia Mashhadi recounts a troubled saga of  marriage, love, and religion, and Salam Bin Razzack paints a picture of a  Mumbai under siege.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Also this month, Askold Melnyczuk extols the virtues of speaking more  than Amerikanisch, Avrom Sutzkever recites an ode to the dove, and Najem  Wali describes a visit to the morgue.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Short Stories From Ines Mendoza, Ronaldo Menendez, Javier Saez de Ibarra (Spanish Only)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few more short stories from Spanish authors (in Spanish only) . Javier Saez de Ibarra won the first International Prize for Short Stories Ribera del Duero in March of 2009. Debutantes, Javier Saez de Ibarra Mohr, la que huye de la luz, Ines Mendoza Paralelamente, Ronaldo Menendez<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2376&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few more short stories from Spanish authors (in Spanish only) . Javier Saez de Ibarra won the first International Prize for Short Stories Ribera del Duero in March of 2009.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/revista/agosto/DEBUTANTES/elpepirdv/20100810elpepirdv_11/Tes" target="_blank">Debutantes</a>, Javier Saez de Ibarra</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publico.es/culturas/332733/mohr/huye/luz" target="_blank">Mohr, la que huye de la luz</a>, Ines Mendoza</p>
<p><a href="http://www.publico.es/culturas/331842/paralelamente" target="_blank">Paralelamente</a>, Ronaldo Menendez</p>
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		<title>Writing the Spanish Civil War: Field of Honor by Max Aub &#8211; a Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Field of Honour Max Aub Verso ( 2009), pg 253 Political novels, especially those written in the heat of the moment, can suffer from didacticism, that need to explain, justify, or apologize which when read latter makes conversation that was once so important seem stiff, bereft of context. At best it can read as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2362&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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Verso ( 2009), pg 253</p>
<p>Political novels, especially those written in the heat of the moment, can suffer from didacticism, that need to explain, justify, or apologize which when read latter makes conversation that was once so important seem stiff, bereft of context. At best it can read as a time capsule, but often the need to explain over powers complexity. Moreover, as history progresses those ideas that were so worth devoting pages to are no longer that important. Sure, they are relevant to a specialist, but they cannot go beyond their moment because the ideas no longer inform the current moment.</p>
<p>Written in 1939, the year of the Republican defeat, Max Aub&#8217;s Field of Honor falls into this trap and despite moments of brilliance the book is mired in conversations about the need for communist, anarchist, flangeest (a mix of Catholicism and fascism) and Carlist (a form of monarchism)  solutions to the problems of Spain. The conversations are more fragments of ideas than cogent argument, which is perhaps fitting its timeliness, and they do show a certain side of the coming troubles, but they neither make an interesting argument, or really convey the experience of the times. He is effective in showing the different ideas that were being discussed, but in of themselves they are not particularly compelling.</p>
<p>It is unfortunate the weakness of the political arguments distract so much, because the other elements are very well written. The book follows Rafael Lopez Serrador a poor youth from a small village in Spain as he goes from young man to revolutionary, struggling against industrialists, switching to fascist side, and ultimately finding what he really is. In one way it is a coming of age story as Serrador learns about sex, the avarice of man kind, and confronts violence. As a coming of age story, even one of political awakening, Aub captures a world, an impression that out lasts the times. Aub&#8217;s strength is to capture a communal experience and he can convey what a town or a battle is like in a way that goes beyond just a historical description, and gives one the sense of the times. His description of the fire bull (a bull with burning pitch on its horns) is not only an effective symbol of Spain on the edge of war, but an excellent depiction of small town life. His quick, imagistic sentences serve his expansive, summary approach, and the result is a sweeping view of the end of Republican Spain.</p>
<p>Ultimately, Field of Honor has moments of brilliance but is slowed by the political discussions. Since it is part of a cycle it would be interesting to see if he is able to use more of the good parts and avoid the conversational fragments.</p>
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		<title>Lit Podcasts 8/27/10: David Mitchell, John Brandon, Louis Couperus, Yasunari Kawabata, Martin Amis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short list this week. It seems like I listened to more than these. David Mitchell on Bookworm from KCRW. This is one of his best interviews in the recent past. A little old but interesting: Todd Shimoda on the Marketplace of Ideas. John Brandon on his novel Citrus Country at the Leonard Lopate Show [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2353&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A short list this week. It seems like I listened to more than these.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw100812david_mitchell_the_t" target="_blank">David Mitchell</a> on Bookworm from KCRW. This is one of his best interviews in the recent past.</p>
<p>A little old but interesting: <strong><a href="http://www.shimodaworks.com/">Todd Shimoda</a></strong> on the <a href="http://colinmarshall.libsyn.com/experimental_novelist_todd_shimoda_seeking_mono_no_aware_in_and_with_literary_art" target="_blank">Marketplace of Ideas</a>.</p>
<p>John Brandon on his novel Citrus Country at the <a href="http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/aug/20/citrus-county/" target="_blank">Leonard Lopate Show</a></p>
<p><a href="http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/aug/18/underappreciated-louis-couperus/" target="_blank">Leonard Lopate</a> discusses Louis Couperus</p>
<p><a href="http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/aug/11/underappreciated-yasunari-kawabata/">Leonard Lopate</a> discusses Yasunari Kawabata</p>
<p><a href="http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/aug/11/martin-amis-em-pregnant-widowem/">Martin Amis</a> talks with Leonard Lopate</p>
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		<title>Short Stories From Andres Neuman, Fernando Iwasaki, Hipólito Navarro, Clara Obligado, Patricia Esteban Erlés</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For your end of summer reading pleasure: short stories from Andres Neuman, Fernando Iwasaki, Hipólito Navarro, Clara Obligado, and Patricia Esteban Erlés. These are all in Spanish and unfortunately I doubt Google translate will help. All of these links are via the publisher Paginas de Espuma. Fernando Iwasaki in  El País titled Emmanuelle Allen: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/revista/agosto/Emmanuelle/Allen/elpepirdv/20100814elpepirdv_6/Tes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2349&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For your end of summer reading pleasure: short stories from Andres Neuman, Fernando Iwasaki, Hipólito Navarro, Clara Obligado, and Patricia Esteban Erlés. These are all in Spanish and unfortunately I doubt Google translate will help. All of these links are via the publisher <a href="http://paginasdeespuma.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Paginas de Espuma</a>.</p>
<p>Fernando Iwasaki in  El País titled Emmanuelle Allen: <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/revista/agosto/Emmanuelle/Allen/elpepirdv/20100814elpepirdv_6/Tes" target="_blank">http://www.elpais.com/articulo/revista/agosto/Emmanuelle/Allen/elpepirdv/20100814elpepirdv_6/Tes</a></p>
<p>Hipólito G. Navarro (<em>El pez volador</em>) in<em> Público:.</em> <a href="http://www.publico.es/culturas/331534/vuelta/dia" target="_blank">http://www.publico.es/culturas/331534/vuelta/dia</a></p>
<p>In <em>Público</em> by Clara Obligado: <a href="http://blogs.publico.es/libre-2010/2010/08/03/el-azar-por-clara-obligado/" target="_blank">http://blogs.publico.es/libre-2010/2010/08/03/el-azar-por-clara-obligado/</a></p>
<p>In <em>El País by Andres Neuman</em>: <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/revista/agosto/pequenas/perversiones/elpepucul/20100716elpepirdv_9/Tes" target="_blank">http://www.elpais.com/articulo/revista/agosto/pequenas/perversiones/elpepucul/20100716elpepirdv_9/Tes</a></p>
<p><em>In </em><em>Público</em> by Patricia Esteban Erlés: <a href="http://www.publico.es/culturas/330839/your/name/relatos/verano" target="_blank">http://www.publico.es/culturas/330839/your/name/relatos/verano</a></p>
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		<title>Spanish Short Stories &#8211; The Forgotten Greats and the New Voices</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[El Pais has an excellent article on short story writers from the 20th century and beyond, with special emphasis on the forgotten during the post war and the new young writers. If you are interested in short stories the article is a must. What is fascinating from my own reading and notes of the author [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2344&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Voces/nuevas/consagradas/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_29/Tes" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20100821elpbabpor_8/LCO340/Ies/Ana_Juan.jpg" alt="" width="340" height="508" />El Pais</a> has an excellent article on short story writers from the 20th century and beyond, with special emphasis on the forgotten during the post war and the new young writers. If you are interested in short stories the article is a must. What is fascinating from my own reading and notes of the author is the interest in playing with reality. Despite the oft cited interest in Americans like Carver, there is a definite interest in authors like Poe, Borges and Cortazar.</p>
<p>One could spend a year reading all these books:</p>
<blockquote><p>Para estar al corriente de los tiempos que se avecinan, Gemma Pellicer y Fernando Valls nos proponen <em>Siglo XXI</em> (Menoscuarto), subtitulado <em>Los nuevos nombres del cuento español actual.</em> Siguiendo la pauta de un libro anterior a cargo de F. Valls y J. A. Masoliver, <em>Los cuentos que cuentan</em> (1998) (con el que este reciente volumen dialoga), se recoge aquí  también una breve reflexión sobre el género firmada por cada uno de los  autores escogidos. Sin ánimo de entrar a debatir algunas de las  afirmaciones vertidas en la presentación del volumen ni matizar el tono  de regusto canonizante que preside esta gavilla de relatos, sí quiero  apuntar un par de cuestiones. Al margen de la fecha de publicación de  los relatos aquí reunidos (todos posteriores a 2000, en efecto), a menos  que admitamos que el siglo XXI empezó en 1989, aproximadamente la mitad  de estos &#8220;nuevos nombres&#8221; pertenece al último tramo del XX, no sólo por  haber empezado a publicar a principios de los noventa sino por su  específica filiación literaria; en este sentido, faltan autores  incontestables. Por eso del subtítulo me sobra el &#8220;los&#8221; y cuestiono la  pretendida novedad, aunque es cierto que la nómina de autores de  trayectoria más breve y reciente está más equilibrada, destacando la  justa y merecida presencia de escritoras como Berta Vias Mahou, Elvira  Navarro, Berta Marsé o Cristina Grande.</p>
<p>Esta última publica <em>Agua quieta</em> (Vagamundos): 36 narraciones próximas a la intensidad y el lirismo de  la prosa poética, que apuntan el latido cotidiano del presente al modo  diarístico (una breve escapada a Escocia o la lectura sosegada de la  vida de Chéjov según Natalia Ginsburg), o se desplazan en el tiempo  evocando historias de familia y los juegos y paisajes de la niñez.</p>
<p>Al modo de novela de formación o aprendizaje podría leerse <em>Conozco un atajo que te llevará al infierno</em> (e.d.a. libros), del valenciano Pepe Cervera: dieciocho estampas que  atraviesan la adolescencia, juventud y primera madurez de Andrés Tangen,  de las cuales en <em>Siglo XXI</em> se recoge la penúltima, &#8216;Como un hombre que sobrevuela el mar&#8217;.</p>
<p>Una de las autoras-revelación incluida en <em>Siglo XXI</em> es Patricia Esteban Erlés, que publica su tercer libro de relatos, <em>Azul oscuro</em> (Páginas de Espuma), cuentos de un gran despliegue imaginativo en los  que la realidad o la vida cotidiana queda alterada por la irrupción de  un elemento extraño, de un acontecimiento tan inesperado como  incomprensible o de un comportamiento ingobernable. Algunos textos  alcanzan grados de condensación casi poéticos y por lo general ocultan  más de lo que dicen, con finales abiertos, tan inquietantes como  sugestivos, o un cierre sorpresivo en el mejor estilo de Poe. Destacaría  el que da título al libro, &#8216;Azul ruso&#8217; -donde encontramos a la nueva  Circe Emma Zunz, que &#8220;fue convirtiendo en gatos a todos los hombres que  cruzaron la puerta del viejo edificio con aires de teatro cerrado donde  vivía&#8221;- y &#8216;La chica del UHF&#8217; -protagonizado por Antonio Puñales, un  &#8220;técnico en pompas fúnebres&#8221; que se desvive por crear amor y belleza  allí donde dominan el horror o la avaricia.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>The Best Short Stories of the 20th Century-the View from Spain</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[El Pais had a brief take on some of the best short stories of the 20th Century. It is a very anglophone list, but interesting as a view from the other side of the Atlantic. Raymond Carver Cathedral (1983) James Joyce The Dead (1914) Henry James The Beast in the Jungle (1903) Juan Rulfo No [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bythefirelight.com&amp;blog=5155705&amp;post=2340&amp;subd=bythefirelight&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>El Pais had a brief take on some of the best short stories of the 20th Century. It is a very anglophone list, but interesting as a view from the other side of the Atlantic.</p>
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Raymond/Carver/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_19/Tes/">Raymond Carver</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">Cathedral (1983)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/James/Joyce/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_10/Tes/">James Joyce</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">The Dead (1914)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Henry/James/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_9/Tes/">Henry James</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">The Beast in the Jungle (1903)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Juan/Rulfo/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_6/Tes/">Juan Rulfo</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">No oyes ladrar a los perros (1953)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Julio/Cortazar/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_15/Tes/">Julio Cortázar</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">Graffiti (1981)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Ramon/Valle-Inclan/-/miedo/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_5/Tes/">Ramón del Valle-Inclán</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">El miedo (1902)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Truman/Capote/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_18/Tes/">Truman Capote</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">Deslumbramiento (1982)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Jorge/Luis/Borges/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_14/Tes/">Jorge Luis Borges</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">El espejo y la máscara (1975)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/J/D/Salinger/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_7/Tes/">J. D. Salinger</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">The Laughing Man (1953)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Francis/Scott/Fitzgerald/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_17/Tes/">Francis Scott Fitzgerald</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">Return to Babilonia (1929)<br />
<img src="http://www.elpais.com/images/0.gif" alt="" width="1" height="4" /></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Ingeborg/Bachmann/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_13/Tes/">Ingeborg Bachmann</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">Problems, Problems (1972)<br />
<img src="http://www.elpais.com/images/0.gif" alt="" width="1" height="4" /></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Katherine/Mansfield/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_20/Tes/">Katherine Mansfield</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">The Fly (1922)<br />
<img src="http://www.elpais.com/images/0.gif" alt="" width="1" height="4" /></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Ring/Lardner/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_16/Tes/">Ring Lardner</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">Champion (1924)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Medardo/Fraile/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_11/Tes/">Medardo Fraile</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">The Album (1959)<br />
<img src="http://www.elpais.com/images/0.gif" alt="" width="1" height="4" /></td>
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Flannery/Connor/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_8/Tes/">Flannery O&#8217;Connor</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955)<br />
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<td><a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Katherine/Mansfield/elpepuculbab/20100821elpbabpor_12/Tes/">Katherine Mansfield</a></td>
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<td width="100%" valign="top">In the Bay(1921)</td>
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