Tag Archive | Horacio Castellanos Moya
Horacio Castellanos Moya – An Interview and a Review of Tyrant Memory
The magazine Revista N has a brief interview with Horacio Castellanos Moya about what inspires his writing and how in some ways he is asking a similar question that Vargas Llosa asked about Peru: when did El Salvador become fucked? The article goes on to wonder how that has influenced his newest novel and how [...]
Violence and Horacio Castellanos Moya – A Review of His Book from Letras Libres
Letras Libres has a good review of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s newest book La sirvienta y el luchador ( The Servant and the Fighter). It is a continuation of the Salvadorean saga that he has been constructing over the last decade, and charts the troubles that have marked generations of the country. This is the fourth book in the [...]
Tyrant Memory by Horacio Castellanos Moya – Reviews
Three Percent has a good review of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Tyrant Memory, a book I reviewed several years ago when I read it in Spanish. I would recommend the book and if you are not sold on it just by the author then perhaps one our reviews will help. My Review: Tirana Memoria is the latest novel by the [...]
Review of New Horacio Castellanos Moya Book
El Pais has a review of the new Horacio Castellanos Moya. It is the fourth installment in his Aragon series. I know Tirania Memoria (Tyrant Memory) is coming out in the US this June. I thought the book was good and I think I would like to read the whole series someday. (you can read [...]
Horacio Castellanos Moya Reviewed at the Millions
The Millions has an interesting overview of the current works of Horacio Castellanos Moya in English, plus a bonus post from New Directions. I’ve been meaning to read Senselessness for sometime now in Spanish, but I’m not sure when I’m going to get around to it. They are all tough reads, but I think well worth [...]
New Directions to Publish Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Tyrant Memory June 2011
New Directions is going to publish Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Tyrant Memory (Tirana Memoria) in June of 2011. Below is a description of the book, or if you can’t wait you can read my review of Tirana Memoria. If you are familiar with his works which are marked with violence and extremes, Tirana Memoria is much more funny and [...]
Results of Book Shopping in Barcelona: Sada, Moya, Palma, Abirached, Munoz, Ndongo, Letelier
I had the luck to have a couple of days to do some book shopping in Barcelona and came back with 7 books. It was hard to limit myself because I recognized so many authors that I’d seen on El Publico Lee. And when I found the display of books from Paginas de Espuma on [...]
Overview of Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti at the Nation
The Nation has an excellent overview of Juan Carlos Onetti, his works and his place in Latin American Literature. I have been thinking of reading him, especially after Horacio Castellanos Moya called him an unlucky writer, someone who never quite got the respect he was due. Calling him a mix of Faulkner and Celine who [...]
Review of New Horacio Castellanos Moya Book at El Pais
El Pais gave a brief review of Horacio Castellanos Moya’s latest book Con la congoja de la pasada tormenta. It is a good review, if brief. Even though he has not put the stories together with this purpose, the 22 stories in Con la congoja de la pasada tormenta (With the Grief of the Tormented [...]
Horacio Castellanos Moya and the Political Novel at the Quarterly Conversation
Tirana MemoriaScott at the Quarterly Conversation has written an excellent article about Horacio Castellanos Moya and the new political novel. It is a good introduction to his work and is worth a read in part because it charts not only an interesting history of the development of the political novel, but of Latin American political [...]
Horacio Castellanos Moya Interviews
I was on the Talpajocote blog and found links to some interviews with Horacio Castellanos Moya. Each are ten minutes long and worth watching. In the first, from a Spanish TV station, he talks about how he traveled around Central America when he was young, hoping that the country would become democratic and eventually gave [...]
Tirana Memoria (sp)
Tirana Memoria Horacio Castellanos Moya Tirana Memoria is the latest novel by the El Salvadoran novelest Horacio Castellanos Moya, who also published a translation of his novel Senselessness (Insensatez) in English this year. Tirana Memoria, although fictional, is about the 1944 overthrow of General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez and takes place over a month and a [...]
Castellanos Moya on Words Without Borders
Words Without borders features a blog post by Horacio Castellanos Moya. In the post he describes the death threats he received after the publication of Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador and forced him to stay away from El Salvador for years.
Horacio Castellanos Moya on Bookworm
I haven’t listed to this yet but Horacio Castellanos Moya was on Bookworm recently.
