Trafalgar

Angélica Gorodischer

Penguin Classics

Libro que da inicio a la colección que lleva el mismo título. Amplio repertorio de escritos interdisciplinarios sobre la mujer latinoamericana que irá conformando diversas propuestas para el estudio del género en nuestra América. A broad spectrum of transdisciplinary writings on Latin American women that develops into a variety of proposals for studies on gender in the Americas.

Mujeres de Palabra (Coleccion Mujeres de Palabra) (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico

Don't rush Trafalgar Medrano when he starts telling you about his latest intergalactic sales trip. He likes to stretch things out over precisely seven coffees. No one knows whether he actu-ally travels to the stars, but he tells the best tall tales in the city, so why doubt him? Trafalgar is Angélica Gorodischer's second novel to be translated into English. Her first, Kalpa Imperial, was selected for the New York Times summer reading list. Angélica Gorodischer lives in Rosario, Argentina. She has received many awards, most recently the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Literary

Small Beer Press

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

This is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. But this is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Gorodischer and translator Ursula K. Le Guin are a well-matched, sly and delightful team of magician-storytellers. Rarely have author and translator been such an effortless pairing. Kalpa Imperial is a powerful introduction to the writing of Angélica Gorodischer, a novel which will enthrall readers already familiar with the worlds of Le Guin.
Selected for the New York Times Summer Reading list.
* "The dreamy, ancient voice is not unlike Le Guin's, and this collection should appeal to her fans as well as to those of literary fantasy and Latin American fiction." —Library Journal (Starred Review)
"There's a very modern undercurrent to the Kalpa empire, with tales focusing on power (in a political sense) rather than generic moral lessons. Her mythology is consistent—wide in scope, yet not overwhelming. The myriad names of places and people can be confusing, almost Tolkeinesque in their linguistic originality. But the stories constantly move and keep the book from becoming overwhelming. Gorodischer has a sizeable body of work to be discovered, with eighteen books yet to reach English readers, and this is an impressive introduction." —Review of Contemporary Fiction
"Borges and Cortázar are alive and well." —Bridge Magazine
"Those looking for offbeat literary fantasy will welcome Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was, by Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer. Translated from the Spanish by Ursula Le Guin, this is the first appearance in English of this prize-winning South American fantasist." —Publishers Weekly
"It's always difficult to wrap up a rave review without babbling redundant praises. This time I'll simply say "Buy this Book!"" —Locus
"The elaborate history of an imaginary country...is Nabokovian in its accretion of strange and rich detail, making the story seem at once scientific and dreamlike." —Time Out New York
Kalpa Imperial has been awarded the Prize "Más Allá" (1984), the Prize "Sigfrido Radaelli" (1985) and also the Prize Poblet (1986). It has had four editions in Spanish: Minotauro (Buenos Aires), Alcor (Barcelona), Gigamesh (Barcelona), and Planeta Emecé Editions (Buenos Aires).
Praise for the Spanish-language editions of Kalpa Imperial: "Angélica Gorodischer, both from without and within the novel, accomplishes the indispensable function Salman Rushdie says the storyteller must have: not to let the old tales die out; to constantly renew them. And she well knows, as does that one who met the Great Empress, that storytellers are nothing more and nothing less than free men and women. And even though their freedom might be dangerous, they have to get the total attention of their listeners and, therefore, put the proper value on the art of storytelling, an art that usually gets in the way of those who foster a forceful oblivion and prevent the winds of change." —Carmen Perilli, La Gaceta, Tucuman
"At a time when books are conceived and published to be read quickly, with divided attention in the din of the subway or the car, this novel is to be tasted with relish, in peace, in moderation, chewing slowly each and every one of the stories that make it up, and digesting it equally slowly so as to properly assimilate it all." —Rodolfo Martinez
"A vast, cyclical filigree . . . Gorodischer reaches much farther than the common run of stories about huge empires, maybe because she wasn't interested in them to begin with, and enters the realm of fable, legend, and allegory." —Luis G. Prado, Gigamesh, Barcelona

Bienvenidos a una selección de historias con una amplia variedad de estilos narrativos y temáticas que ilustran los intereses de las voces femeninas en la ciencia ficción. La antología se abre con el relato ganador de la convocatoria que supuso el arranque de esta antología: «La Terpsícore», de la autora argentina Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría. Junto a ella, Felicidad Martínez, Laura Ponce, Yolanda Espiñeira, Nieves Delgado, Sofía Rhei, Layla Martínez, Marian Womack, Carme Torras y la gran Angélica Gorodischer nos ofrecen su personalísima e intransferible visión de lo que es la ciencia ficción. Tras su exitosa edición en ebook de manos de Palabaristas, Sportula presenta la edición impresa de esta imprescindible antología.

Alucinadas (Spanish Edition)

Teresa P. Mira de Echeverría

Nieves Delgado

Yolanda Espiñeira

Felicidad Martínez

Layla Martínez

Laura Ponce

Sofía Rhei

Carme Torras

Lola Robles

Marian Womack

Sportula

Once relatos en los que Gorodischer despliega un universo ficional complejo, donde la ciencia ficción se cruza con el realismo mágico, narrando la historia del Imperio Más Vasto que Nunca Existió. Es una obra clave en la producción de estaautora y en la literatura nacional. 1a. ed.: Minotauro, 1983, en dos tomos. Esta edición reúne ambos tomos en un solo volumen.

Kalpa Imperial (Spanish Edition)

Emecé Editores

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