Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature: The colonial period to the beginnings of modernism
Title | Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature: The colonial period to the beginnings of modernism PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 440 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Spanish American literature |
ISBN |
Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature: Modernism to the present
Title | Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature: Modernism to the present PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 536 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Spanish American literature |
ISBN |
Zama
Title | Zama PDF eBook |
Author | Antonio Di Benedetto |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2016-08-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590177355 |
An NYRB Classics Original First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires, where everything about his hopeless existence will, he is confident, be miraculously transformed and made good. Don Diego’s slow, nightmarish slide into the abyss is not just a tale of one man’s perdition but an exploration of existential, and very American, loneliness. Zama, with its stark dreamlike prose and spare imagery, is at once dense and unforeseen, terse and fateful, marked throughout by a haunting movement between sentences, paragraphs, and sections, so that every word seems to emerge from an ocean of things left unsaid. The philosophical depths of this great book spring directly from its dazzling prose.
Studies in Spanish-American Literature
Title | Studies in Spanish-American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Isaac Goldberg |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Modernism (Literature) |
ISBN |
Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature
Title | Masterpieces of Spanish American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Angel Flores |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780023383205 |
Guide to Studies in Spanish American Literature
Title | Guide to Studies in Spanish American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Lee Weisinger |
Publisher | Praeger |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 1972-11-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Spanish-American Literature
Title | Spanish-American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Enrique Anderson Imbert |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Latin American literature |
ISBN | 9780814313886 |
With a focus both historical and literary, Enrique Anderson-Imbert surveys the literature of Hispanic America. His study is not merely an historical synthesis of names, titles, and dates; it is, rather, a critical analytical appraisal of the verse, prose, and drama written in Spanish in the Americas in the contemporary period.