Eight Novellas: Translated by Herlinda Charpentier Saitz and Robert L. Saitz: 56 (Wor(L)Ds of Change: Latin American and Iberian Literature) - Softcover

Saitz, Robert L.; Saitz, Herlinda Charpentier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820474355 ISBN 13: 9780820474359

Verlag: Peter Lang, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Ramon Gomez de la Serna

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Críticas:

«Besides (Ramón's) 'greguerías' little else has been translated. An occasional short story has appeared in an anthology where it remains buried, or in an inaccessible literary review. For this reason the publication of Robert and Herlinda Saitz's translation of a generous selection of novelle can be hailed as an important literary event. The cooperation between Professor Herlinda Saitz (who, as a critic-scholar, has produced two important contributions to Gómez de la Serna's scholarship) with her husband Robert, a Profesor of English, has proven quite successful. Their translations can be read as if the texts had been originally written in the English language. There are no seams or hanging threads. To continue with Cervante's famous simile, we feel that we are looking at the tapestry from the right side, not from the wrong one.» (Rodolfo Cardona, University Professor Emeritus, Boston University)
«The stories I read - 'Kill the Morse!' and 'The Master of the Atom' - are extraordinary. I had never previously heard of de la Serna, but I am delighted to know that you are going to make him known to us Anglophones. He seems to have achieved a very special blend of the naïve and the surreal, utilizing the technological allusion available in his time to express a touching modernist mood of bewilderment and yearning. I hope you are planning to publish these soon.» (Millicent Bell, Professor Emeritus and James Scholar, Boston University)

Reseña del editor:

The eight novellas collected in this book display the humor, exuberant spirit, love of language, and insight of the Spanish writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna, a central figure in the European and Latin American avant-garde, and a key contributor of Anglo-American imagism to Spanish literature. Father of the prose and poetry of the «Generation of '27», Gómez de la Serna was admired by T.S. Eliot, Macedonio Fernández, Oliverio Girondo, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, Alfonso Reyes, and was a source of inspiration for Borges, García Márquez, Cortázar, and Pizarnik. These novellas, with their humorous and witty exaggerations of everyday human foibles, their simple story lines and often-surprising endings, are presented here in the original Spanish with a clear English translation on facing pages. This book will be useful in intermediate and advanced Spanish classes and in translation courses.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0820474355
• ISBN 13: 9780820474359
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 261