The Censors
A Bilingual Selection of Stories
Published on 30. July 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
255 pages
978-0-915306-12-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Censors is the only bilingual collection of fiction by Luisa Valenzuela, one of Latin America's best known and most widely translated authors. This selection of stories from Clara, Strange Things Happen Here, and Open Door, which delves into the personal and political realities under authoritarian rule, gives a rich representation of her literary talent.
Reviews / Votes
""Luisa Valenzuela's affecting short stories-parables, really-are cryptic and poetic. Like many Latin American writers, she produces work that verges on the surreal."" New York Times Book Review|"[She is] the heiress of Latin American literature. She wears an opulent, baroque crown, but her feet are bare."-Carlos Fuentes
|"Luisa Valenzuela explores the terrain where love and violence, erotic pleasure and death, exist perilously close to each other . . . Valenzuela plays with words, turns them inside out, weaves them into sensuous webs."
-Voice Literary Supplement
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
St Paul, MN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-915306-12-1 (9780915306121)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Luisa Valenzuela (born November 26, 1938, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina. Works such as Como en la guerra (1977), Cambio de armas (1982) and Cola de lagartija (1983) combine a powerful critique of dictatorship with an examination of patriarchal forms of social organization and the power structures which inhere in human sexuality and gender relationships.
Content
The Censors/Los censores
Los mejor calzados
The Best Shod
El custodio blancanieves
The Snow White Watchman
Cronicas de pueblorrojo
Redtown Chronicles
La historia de Papito
Papito's Story
One Siren or Another/Unas y otras sirenas
Carnival campero
Country Carnival
El fontanero azul
The Blue Water Man
Unas y otras sirenas
One Siren or Another
Proceso a la virgen
Trial of the Virgin
Los menestreles
The Minstrels
El hijo de Kermaria
The Son of Kermaria
La puerta
The Door
Vision de reojo
Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye
Pavada de suicidio
All About Suicide
The Attainment of Knowledge/Para alcanzar el conocimiento
Para alcanzar el conocimiento
The Attiainment of Knowledge
Leyenda de la criatura autosuficiente
Legend of the Self Sufficient Child
Pantera ocular
Cat's Eye
Donde viven las aguilas
Up Among the Eagles
The Place of its Quietude/El lugar de su quietud
El lugar de su quietud
The Place of its Quietude
Los mejor calzados
The Best Shod
El custodio blancanieves
The Snow White Watchman
Cronicas de pueblorrojo
Redtown Chronicles
La historia de Papito
Papito's Story
One Siren or Another/Unas y otras sirenas
Carnival campero
Country Carnival
El fontanero azul
The Blue Water Man
Unas y otras sirenas
One Siren or Another
Proceso a la virgen
Trial of the Virgin
Los menestreles
The Minstrels
El hijo de Kermaria
The Son of Kermaria
La puerta
The Door
Vision de reojo
Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye
Pavada de suicidio
All About Suicide
The Attainment of Knowledge/Para alcanzar el conocimiento
Para alcanzar el conocimiento
The Attiainment of Knowledge
Leyenda de la criatura autosuficiente
Legend of the Self Sufficient Child
Pantera ocular
Cat's Eye
Donde viven las aguilas
Up Among the Eagles
The Place of its Quietude/El lugar de su quietud
El lugar de su quietud
The Place of its Quietude