Download or read book Parody in the Novels of Eduardo Mendoza written by David John Knutson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where History and Story Meet written by Robert John Edgar Harland and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City of Marvels written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Telegram Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Released from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quick-witted and foul-smelling narrator, Gonewiththewind, delves deep into the underworld of 1970s Barcelona to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from a convent school." "Helped only by his ageing prostitute sister and the voluptuous nymphomaniac, Mercedes, the narrator's investigations take him deeper into a mystery involving murdered sailors, suicidal daughters, a web of organised crime and a secret, underground crypt." "Both gripping and surprising. The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt is a hilarious detective story."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book No Word from Gurb written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Telegram Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious cult classic featuring an extraterrestial Don Quixote bumbling through modern-day Barcelona.
Download or read book City of Wonders written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila "Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly contemporary in spirit" Jonathan Franzen Stung by the realisation that his father is a fraud and a failure, Onofre Bouvila leaves a life of rural poverty to seek his fortune in Barcelona. The year is 1888, and the Catalan capital is about to emerge from provincial obscurity to take its place amongst the great cities of the world, thanks to the upcoming Universal Exhibition. Thanks to a tip-off from his landlord's daughter, Onofre gets his big break distributing anarchist leaflets to workers preparing for the World Fair. From these humble beginnings, he branches out as a hair-tonic salesman, a burglar, a filmmaker, an arms smuggler and a political dealmaker, in a multifaceted career that brings him wealth and influence beyond his wildest dreams. But, just as Barcelona's rise makes it a haven for gangsters, crooks and spivs, vice begins to fester in Onofre's heart. And the climax to his remarkable story will come just as a second World Fair in 1929 marks the city's apotheosis. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor
Download or read book Eduardo Mendoza written by Jeffrey Thomas Oxford and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical anthology on the novels and other work of Eduardo Mendoza is the very first collection of scholarly essays to be published solely on this Spanish novelist. With contributions by academics from Spain and the United States, this book touches upon each of Mendoza's major publications from 1975 to date. The essays assume a varied array of critical positions and practices, often reaching strikingly different conclusions about the same texts. This anthology illustrates and underscores Mendoza's multifaceted character, celebrating the humorously serious reputation of one of the greatest Spanish authors of our time.
Download or read book Eduardo Mendoza s Crime Novels written by Tiffany Gagliardi Trotman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines canonical works of the Spanish novela negra genre - Eduardo Mendoza's El misterio de la cripta embrujada, El laberinto de aceitunas, and La aventura del tocador de senoras. Unlike previous studies, this work explores folkloric elements to demonstrate that there is a pervading culture of carnival informing Mendoza's parody of the traditional crime novel. In the wake of Francisco Franco's long dictatorship, various new forms of literature emerged in Spain. A new period of transformation, the so-called Spanish Transition, fostered an environment of experimentation and innovation free from the restrictive barriers of Franco's regime. The Transition proved a period of great hopes and expectations as well as disillusionment and disappointment. This time, above all, provided an opportunity to reflect critically on the history and experience of the nation in the twentieth century. Eduardo Mendoza is one among a generation of writers that experienced the early years of the Transition, the subsequent emergence of the Socialist Party and the reintroduction of Spain to Europe and, indeed, the rest of the world post 1975.
Download or read book The Year 200 written by Agustín de Rojas and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult classic from the godfather of Cuban science fiction, Agustín de Rojas’s The Year 200 is both a visionary sci-fi masterwork and a bold political parable about the perils of state power. Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos.” When the Empire returns and takes over the minds of unsuspecting citizens in a scenario that terrifyingly recalls Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the world’s fate falls into the hands of two brave women. Originally published in 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the onset of Cuba's devastating Special Period, Agustín de Rojas’s magnum opus brings contemporary trajectories to their logical extremes and boldly asks, “What does ‘the greatest good for the greatest number’ really mean?”
Download or read book The Truth about the Savolta Case written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel "evokes the revolutionary atmosphere of Barcelona in the shadows of World War I."
Download or read book Coming into one s Own written by Alexis Grohmann and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Javier Marías is a major contemporary Spanish novelist who has enjoyed remarkable international success and recognition. He is a writer who has undergone a singular and clearly discernible novelistic evolution and has forged a very distinctive style of his own. It is this formal development that this book traces through a study of his works from Los dominios del lobo (1971) to Negra espalda del tiempo (1998). With the help of a wide range of 20th-century literary theories and criticism, it strives to show that in order to escape realism and Spanishness and to make his way into literature, Marías forges an intricate style which progressively develops and matures, and which creates highly suggestive and elaborate imaginative worlds, a literature with a particular ontology, ultimately capable of inventing reality. This book is the first full-length study of Javier Marías's work to be published so far and serves both as an introduction to, and a close examination of, the work of a major European writer.
Download or read book Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Detective Fiction written by Renée W. Craig-Odders and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the hard-boiled private investigator from gritty pulp fiction, a terse and mysterious figure, has become increasingly universal as the detective novel crosses more and more borders. A booming genre in Latin America, Spain and other Hispanic cultures, detective fiction has transcended the limitations of its influences. Hispanic authors relatively new to the genre have published novels and series popular with the public, while a number of well-known writers have adapted the genre to reflect the concurrent globalization of modern society and the crimes within it. This volume presents a compilation of 11 critical essays on genero negro--contemporary detective fiction in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian canon. Surveying the last twenty years, the text analyzes emerging trends in this rapidly evolving genre, as well as the mutations and innovations taking place within the style. The first section of the book is dedicated to the detective fiction of Spain and Portugal. The second section surveys works from Latin America and the United States, where topics touch on universal subjects like crime, identity and feminism.
Download or read book A Companion to the Twentieth century Spanish Novel written by Martha Eulalia Altisent and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish novel in a turbulent century.
Download or read book Queen Cocaine written by Nuria Amat and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2002 winner of the city of Barcelona Prize for Best Novel of the Year
Download or read book The Olive Labyrinth written by Eduardo and published by Telegram Books. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our hero, Gonewiththewind, has once again been released by the police from a lunatic asylum in Barcelona. This time his mission is to recover a briefcase filled with money lost under very peculiar circumstances. Mysteries and mishaps follow each other at breakneck speed, as the hapless detective delves beyond humor and the absurd to the frontiers of the truly surreal. Eduardo Mendoza was born in 1943 in Barcelona. He spent some years in New York working as an interpreter for the United Nations. His other novels include No Word from Gurb and The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt (both available from Telegram).
Download or read book The Year of the Flood written by Eduardo Mendoza and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nun falls in love with a wealthy landowner in this tale set in Spain. The romance begins when Sister Consuela is appointed mother superior of a convent and has to raise funds for a medical clinic. By the author of The Truth About the Savolta Case.
Download or read book Zama written by Antonio Di Benedetto and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original First published in 1956, Zama is now universally recognized as one of the masterpieces of modern Argentine and Spanish-language literature. Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the eighteenth century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires, where everything about his hopeless existence will, he is confident, be miraculously transformed and made good. Don Diego’s slow, nightmarish slide into the abyss is not just a tale of one man’s perdition but an exploration of existential, and very American, loneliness. Zama, with its stark dreamlike prose and spare imagery, is at once dense and unforeseen, terse and fateful, marked throughout by a haunting movement between sentences, paragraphs, and sections, so that every word seems to emerge from an ocean of things left unsaid. The philosophical depths of this great book spring directly from its dazzling prose.
