The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris - Softcover

Weiss, Jason

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415940133 ISBN 13: 9780415940139

Verlag: Routledge, 2002

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Because of political, cultural, or economic difficulties in their homelands, Latin American writers have often sought refuge abroad. Their independent searches for a haven in which to write often ended in Paris, long a city of writes in exile. This is more than solely a group biography of these writers or an explication of material they wrote about Paris; it is also a luminous account of the work they wrote while in Paris, often based in their homelands. It explores how Paris reacted to this wave of Latin American writers and how these writers absorbed Parisian influences and welded them to their own traditions setting the stage for immense success and power of works coming from Central and South America over the last half of the twentieth century.

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Jason Weiss was born and raised at the Jersey shore, schooled in Berkeley, spent a decade in Paris, and has been living in Brooklyn for 30+ years, working as a writer, editor, and translator. His first book was Writing at Risk: Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers (1991), followed by books on Brion Gysin, Steve Lacy, Latin American writers in Paris, and the ESP-Disk' record label. He also published Cloud Therapy (2015), short nonfiction texts on swimming, and translated books by Luisa Futoransky, Marcel Cohen, and Silvina Ocampo. With Iris Cushing, he co-edited a big book of selected poems by the late California poet Mary Norbert Korte (1934-2022), Jumping into the American River (2023). Spuyten Duyvil previously published another book of short nonfiction texts, Listenings (2023).

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415940133
• ISBN 13: 9780415940139
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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