Monday, November 29, 2010

Implantation Day Period Is Due

Barbarians Dreams Sleep Celta

In the novel Barbarians Dreams (Peisa, 2010) the painter and writer Rodrigo Núñez C . (Lima, 1953) reconsiders the draft of its first adventure narrative comedy desert (2002): the portrait of a group of intellectuals and artists living in "community" and immersed in artificial worlds of literature and art. But this time the results are much better, and Dreams barbarians is appearing on all lists of the best novels of 2010 Peruvian. Rafael

Delucchi is installed in a deserted house, with bohemian and talented friends (real people from the cultural Lima) for, together, shoot a monumental work. The fortunes of the group ranging from the tragedy (the suicide of John Bullitt, for example) to the cute and fun, alternating with reflections on famous films, technical details of how they're doing that of Delucchi, and even a version of Greek tragedy modern.

Núñez has replaced the farce and the "magical realism" of The Comedy ... known events and characters by recent political history of Peru, also built from a cinematic perspective. A real success, as this would compensate for the excesses "cultures" and gives the story a stronger factual basis. And while there is no well-defined plot (the story could go on ad libitum ) the nearly 500 pages of Dreams barbarians are read with great interest.


Related
You can read the first pages of the novel in blog Rodrigo Núñez. Other texts on
barbarians Dreams: Jeremiah Gamboa, Ricardo González V ., Jaime A. Rivera,
Interviews: Pedro Escribano , John Martinez, Carlos Sotomayor . The following video
, Nunez talks extensively about his novel.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Signs Scorpio Man Is Not Interested




In Celtic's dream (Alfaguara, 2010) our brand new Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa recreates the life of Roger Casement (1864, 1916) Irish nationalist hero as well as witness, and one of the first to denounce "the atrocities committed in Africa and America for the rubber collection firms. Precisely in these three areas (Ireland, Congo and Peru) develop the actions of this extensive and documented account.

is therefore a historical novel, a genre that has achieved MVLL create, based on characters and real data, sound and meaningful fictions (The War of the End of the world, The Feast of the Goat), but which has also encountered when approaching the "biopic" as in Paradise in the other corner. Some of this last case in this new novel because the author has fictionalized a lot and his "moralizing" is sometimes too emphatic and repetitive.

The best pages are those dedicated to the Peruvian Amazon, as described in several novels MVLL, Casement and dialogues with his jailer, while waiting to be executed. Despite careful documentation work, and maturity and enormous literary resources deployed by the author, The Celtic dream will surely be considered among the novels of the second magnitude (as The Storyteller or Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter ) within the whole work of Vargas Llosa.


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can read the first chapter of the novel in Scribd and 16 fragments in El Pais.
Other Comments: Gianrico Carofiglio , Gustavo Faverón , Peter Gandolfo , Ricardo González V . , Roberto Gonzales E. , José-Carlos Mainer , José Miguel Oviedo , Gonzalo Portocarrero, Carlos Villanes .
The following is a video presentation of the novel in Spain.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Smithfield's Barbeque Nutrition

The dealer

Featured critical and university lecturer, Gustavo Faverón (Lima, 1965) has debuted on the literary with the novel The dealer (Peisa, 2010) an extensive detective story, in line with more "brain" of the genre (that of Poe and Borges .) Daniel, a collector of old books, confesses to having murdered his wife, so it is locked in a madhouse. But that's just the first of a strange series of crimes the novel's protagonist must resolve.

The story takes place in two opposite directions is becoming more and more elements of "fantasy and gothic horror story" (As stated by himself Faverón) and is rooted in the problem of political violence in Peru during the past decades. The author's intention is that these two lines complement the subjective and objective, fantasy and realism, giving the story multiple reading levels, from the real testimony to the allegorical and metaliterary.

This ambition to cover as many items can also be found in the diversity of the registers of language (poetic descriptions, dramatic dialogues, key texts, etc.). But despite the virtues and literary resources at stake, Not all these elements become integrated fully into fiction, which The dealer, while being a good novel, it loses some of unity and coherence.


Related
Other texts on the novel: Luis Hernán Castañeda (another text ) Gustavo Faverón , Laura García, Ricardo González Vigil , Eduardo González .
Interviews: Gabriel Ruiz Ortega .
The following is a video presentation relit on The dealer .


Thursday, November 4, 2010

Black Below Knee Dress

Deep Valuable editorial initiatives hair

The closure of the 31 Feria del Libro Ricardo Palma is a good opportunity to highlight some interesting editorial proposals. First, the Peisa Editions, which has been republished a number of classics Peruvian poetry, with good education and in his prefatory series "Morning Soul" which include all the work of César Vallejo - The Black Heralds, and Trilce complete poetic work - and the collected poetry of Javier Heraud.

Streetcar editors, led by poet Cecilia Podesta, is also publishing an original series of poetry books: book objects, with the covers and binding handmade so no two copies are exactly alike . Some titles are: Fourteen forms of melancholy Eduardo Chirinos, Dying is an art Mariella Dreyfus, Studies body of Jorge Frisancho and the latest White Desvelo Ana Maria Falconi.

Editions Altazor recently put into service seven novels of "new" Latin American writers, and brought the seven writers to visit our country. These novels are Carbon 14. a cult novel by Cuban Jorge Enrique Lage; Heimlich maneuver, the Ecuadorian Miguel Antonio Chavez and Takashi . stolen history, the Peruvian Ernesto Carlin (already mentioned in this column.) To these are added the second part of the saga that Carlos Calderón Fajardo is writing about the legendary Sarah Ellen.

Finally, the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola is pushing the literary essay with the publication of three books: House, Main. Blanca Varela's poetry in the mirror Camilo Fernández C. (Member of the Peruvian Academy of Language), Mirror of Modernity: Avant-garde, theater experience and 5 meters of Selenco poems Vega and Intertextuality in the Poetry of Emily A. Westphalen, Mauro Marino Jiménez.