Jason Weiss

The Lights of Home

A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780415940139
• ISBN-10: 0415940133
• Artikelnr.: 21989382

Autorenporträt

Jason Weiss lived in Paris throughout the 1980s and has since taught Latin American literature at NYU, The New School, and Cooper Union. Currently he is a freelance writer, editor, and translator. His other books include Writing at Risk: Interviews in Paris with UncommonWriters and Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction: the lure of Paris 1. The voyage out
(1893-1939) The French reception 2. Writers' beginnings(Gabriel García
Mrquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfredo Bryce Echenique) 3. Clarifying sojourns
(Octavio Paz, Alejandra Pizarnik) 4. Diplomatic pastures (Miguel Angel
Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Pablo Neruda) Tradition of Pilgrimage: the
dream city 5. Interstitial spaces (Julio Cortzar) 6. Transgressive gestures
(Severo Sarduy, Copi) Outside Looking In: Paris, city of exiles 7. The
privileged eye, writing from distance (Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Juan José Saer)
8. Tsuris of the margins (Luisa Futoransky) Living in Another Language: the
problem of audience, community 9. The translated self (Edgardo Cozarinsky)
10. New World transplants--foreigners in French (Eduardo Manet, Silvia
Baron Supervielle) 11. Académicien (Hector Bianciotti) Conclusion: the
lights of home Notes Bibliography