Tag Archive | Chile
First Chapter of Alberto Fuguet’s Missing in English at Ezra Fitz’s Site
Ezra Fitz, the translator of Alberto Fuguet’s Missing an Investigation, has posted the first chapter of the book on his blog. It is a sizable excerpt and I recommend that you read it. I have almost finished the book in Spanish and I have been impressed with the book. It is a book that should have a [...]
Alberto Fuguet – His Work and Controversies in Pagina 12
Pagina 12 has a long interview article with Alberto Fuget that covers his newest novel, Missing, and his history as part of a new generation of Latina American writers. The sections about the controversies he has caused was insightful especially the reactions he was getting from the English speaking north. I’m looking forward to reading [...]
Controversy: Isabel Allende and the National Prize for Literature
Perhaps it wouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone who follows Latin American literature that there would be some controversy about Isabel Allende and Chile’s National Prize for Literature. I haven’t heard a kind word for her in a while, usually it is wrapped up in criticisms of popularity, but none of her recent [...]
Ana Maria Matute, Amin Maalouf and Nicanor Parra Finalists for the Principe de Asturias
The Spanish author Ana Maria Matute, the Lebanese Amin Maalouf, and the Chilean Nicanor Parra are the finalists for the Principe de Asturias prize, which will be awarded on Wednesday. El Pais has a run down on the authors. It is interesting that a Lebanese author is listed amongst an otherwise Spanish language prize. As [...]
Review of Chilean Author Alberto Fuguet’s New Novel
Moleskine Literario has an lengthy and well reasoned review of Alberto Fuguet’s newest book, which is not quite a novel and not quite non-fiction. It is a book based on his own family and his own experience. The narrator, who is also named Alberto Fuguet, is trying to find out more about his uncle, Carlos, [...]
Chilean Hernán Rivera Letelier Has Won the Alfaguara Prize
Chilean Hernán Rivera Letelier won the Alfaguara Prize yesterday, one of the more important prizes in Spanish speaking world with a prize of $175,000. According to the jury, his book El arte de la resurrección “mixes historical and social chronicle with elements of magic realism (mezcla la crónica histórica y social con elementos del realismo [...]
Carlos Fuentes on Chilean Literature
Carlos Funtes has a reflection of the literature of Chile and what it has meant to him. It is a quick overview but worth reading as it mentions many writers I am not familiar with. (Google translate here if you don’t speak Spanish.)
The Maid – A Review
The Maid is one of those claustrophobic movies that seldom roams into varied locations and keeps to one character almost all the time, yet feels open and finds in the littlest of actions an expansive interior world. The interior world for the viewer, though, is a mystery, because it is unverbalized. The Maid is a [...]
Best Sellers in Chile February 5 to 11
It wouldn’t be any worse than the best seller lists in the States except they had to import the nonsense that fills their charts. It is too bad globalization means even your local hack has to worry about being outsourced.
Bolaño, Enrique Lihn, and Jorge Edwards
I found one review and one story whose discovery were perfectly timed. The first, is a review in Letras Libres of a new book by Jorge Edwards. The second is a short story Meeting with Enrique Lihn by Bolaño in the New Yorker. The two items coincide nicely because the Bolaño story, although not particularly [...]
