Entre Rios Trilogy
2nd edition
2nd Edition
Published on 20. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-945680-59-5 (ISBN)
Description
As a trilogy, the novellas offer a powerful resistance against the socio-cultural invisibility of the Jewish immigrant populations, as well as a significant contribution to the literature of marginalization and exile. Suez's minimalist narratives have profound traces in the other side of the tapestry of what, in the end, is still very much a powerful and significant presence of Jews in Argentina. Indeed, Suez's three novellas are exercises in reading those backside traces. They are, in the best feminist tradition, stories told from women's point of view in the attempt to bring forth the way in which social history, so often forged consciously and unthinkingly by men oblivious to women's participation in it, impacts on women's consciousness.
Reviews / Votes
"A mesmerizing narrative of life in the Argentine province of Entre Rios where many Jews from Eastern Europe settled at the turn of the 20th century. Perla Suez narrates with passion and audacity life in this region, where violence and identity are intertwined with love and the possibilities of belonging in a foreign land." -Marjorie Agosin "Memory, personal and collective, is the engine behind The Entre Rios Trilogy. Perla Suez returns mercilessly to traumatic moments in Argentine Jewish history: the immigration at the end of the nineteenth century, the pogrom in 1919 known as Semana tragica, the quest of the grandchildren of immigrants to find a home, and the perfunctory nature of anti-Semitism. Figuratively, Suez is a descendant of Gerchunoff: a dreamer, a language wizard." - Ilan Stavans"Suez's minimalist narratives have profound traces in the other side of the tapestry of what, in the end, is still very much a powerful and significant presence of Jews in Argentina. Indeed, Suez's three novels are exercises in reading those backside traces. They are, in the best feminist tradition, stories told from women's point of view in the attempt to bring forth the way in which social history, so often forged consciously and unthinkingly by men oblivious to women's participation in it, impacts on women's consciousness. The fact that the consciousness of Suez's characters is that of humble peasant girls or young women only makes them that much more eloquent: stream-of-conscious narrative, oblique witnessing, barely perceptive understanding are all features of these three texts, while at the same time Suez is able to transmit the literal burden of history - Argentine history, Jewish history, Argentine-Jewish history - of each of her characters, both in the first person and in the third person experiences.
This is a superb account of women's lives that are important in their public obscurity, and Buchanan's translation is flawless." -David William Foster
"Buchanan's masterful translation succeeds in capturing the author's careful pacing of the text, economy of language, and the lyrical nature of her writing. As a trilogy, the novellas offer a powerful resistance against the socio-cultural invisibility of the Jewish immigrant populations, as well as a significant contribution to the literature of marginalization and exile." -Karen Wooley Martin
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Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Buffalo
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945680-59-5 (9781945680595)
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Perla Suez was born in Cordoba, Argentina. She began her literary career publishing novels and short stories for children, and was the founding director of CEDILIJ (Centro de Difusion e Investigacion de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil), a center for children's literature in Cordoba. Her novel Memorias de Vladimir (Alfaguara, 1992) was awarded the White Ravens Prize, and has been published in several subsequent editions, most recently in 2019 by the Editorial Comunicarte. In 2000, she made her debut in the realm of adult fiction with the publication of Letargo, which was a finalist for the prestigious 2001 Romulo Gallegos Prize. In 2008, Trilogia de Entre Rios was awarded the Primer Premio Internacional Grinzane Covour. In 2007, Suez won a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel La pasajera (Editorial Norma, 2008), which was translated to English as Dreaming of the Delta. In 2013, she received the Argentine National Novel Prize for Humo rojo (Editorial Edhasa, 2012). In 2015, her novel El pais del diablo received the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize, and in 2020, the XX Romulo Gallegos International Novel Prize for the best novel written in Spanish in Latin America and Spain. In 2019, White Pine Press published the translation of the novel as The Devil's Country.
Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Louisville. Her many translations include: The Entre Rios Trilogy (U of New Mexico P, 2006; 1st ed.) and Dreaming of the Delta (U Texas Tech P, 2014), four novels by Perla Suez. Her translation Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana Maria Shua (White Pine P, 2008) is a bilingual illustrated anthology of microfictions. She is the recipient of a 2006 NEA Literature Fellowship for the translation of Alberto Ruy-Sanchez's novel The Secret Gardens of Mogador: Voices of the Earth (White Pine Press, 2009). In 2014, White Pine Press published her translation Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador by Alberto Ruy-Sanchez. In 2019, White Pine Press published her translation of Perla Suez's novel The Devil's Country, and in 2020, her translation of Mempo Giardinelli's novel Bruno Folner's Last Tango.
Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Louisville. Her many translations include: The Entre Rios Trilogy (U of New Mexico P, 2006; 1st ed.) and Dreaming of the Delta (U Texas Tech P, 2014), four novels by Perla Suez. Her translation Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction by Ana Maria Shua (White Pine P, 2008) is a bilingual illustrated anthology of microfictions. She is the recipient of a 2006 NEA Literature Fellowship for the translation of Alberto Ruy-Sanchez's novel The Secret Gardens of Mogador: Voices of the Earth (White Pine Press, 2009). In 2014, White Pine Press published her translation Poetics of Wonder: Passage to Mogador by Alberto Ruy-Sanchez. In 2019, White Pine Press published her translation of Perla Suez's novel The Devil's Country, and in 2020, her translation of Mempo Giardinelli's novel Bruno Folner's Last Tango.