The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

Author: Zen Cho
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250269245
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101

Book Description
A 2021 Locus Award Finalist! A Lambda Literary Award Finalist A Book Riot Must-Read Fantasy of 2020 Amazon's Best of 2020 So Far “Fantastic, defiant, utterly brilliant.” —Ken Liu Zen Cho returns with The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history. A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the Pure Moon, joins up with an eclectic group of thieves (whether they like it or not) in order to protect a sacred object, and finds herself in a far more complicated situation than she could have ever imagined. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Machado de Assis

Author: Kenneth David Jackson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300180829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest writer, although his work is still too little read outside his native country. In this first comprehensive English-language examination of Machado since Helen Caldwell's seminal 1970 study, K. David Jackson reveals Machado de Assis as an important world author, one of the inventors of literary modernism whose writings profoundly influenced some of the most celebrated authors of the twentieth century, including José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, and Donald Barthelme. Jackson introduces a hitherto unknown Machado de Assis to readers, illuminating the remarkable life, work, and legacy of the genius whom Susan Sontag called “the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America” and whom Allen Ginsberg hailed as “another Kafka.” Philip Roth has said of him that “like Beckett, he is ironic about suffering.” And Harold Bloom has remarked of Machado that “he's funny as hell.”

Epitaph of a Small Winner

Author: Machado de Assis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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I the Supreme

Author: Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525564691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

Agua Viva

Author: Clarice Lispector
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816617821
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.

On Lightness in World Literature

Author: B. Scott
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137346841
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Despite the apparent ubiquity of light literature, and despite the greater cultural prestige it has been afforded in recent decades, very little has been written on the adjective that actually defines this category. What, precisely, does it signify, and what are some of the key strategies by which the effect of lightness is achieved within literary discourse? In this original and engaging study, Bede Scott explores the aesthetic quality of lightness as demonstrated by a diverse range of narratives – spanning four different centuries and five different countries. In each case, he focuses on a specific 'type' of lightness, whether it be the refined triviality of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, the ludic tendencies of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, or the 'exhilarating and primitive vitality' of Voltaire's Candide. By bringing together such disparate sources, Scott makes a strong case for the universality of this particular aesthetic value, while also subjecting its underlying structural features to close critical scrutiny.

Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre

Author: Xavier de Maistre
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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The City Below the Cloud

Author: T. S. Galindo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781693367533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Few things endure like fear and fungus.In a city forever shrouded in darkness, Kalan braves the heights of the lichen covered buildings to scrub the invading fungi from the walls. What will be discovered when the secrets of The City Below the Cloud come for them? A dystopian cyberpunk novella that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew.

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism

Author: Roberto Schwarz
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822322399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
DIVA translation of Schwarz's study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908)./div

A Hologram for the King

Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 034580760X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
A National Book Award Finalist, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most highly-acclaimed books of the year, A Hologram for the King is a sprawling novel about the decline of American industry from one of the most important, socially-aware novelists of our time. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment--and a moving story of how we got here.