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Reglas y tacticas de ajedrez: Una guia de bolsillo (Spanish Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Labbé, Carlos

Shafi, Noel

Puzzles & Games

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"Carlos Labbé's [Navidad & Matanza] begins to fuck with your head from its very first word—moving through journalese, financial reporting, whodunit, Joseph Conrad, Raymond Chandler, Nabokov to David Lynch."—Toby LittIt's the summer of 1999 when the two children of wealthy video game executive Jose Francisco Vivar, Alicia and Bruno, go missing in the beach town of Matanza. Long after their disappearance, the people of Matanza and the adjacent town of Navidad consistently report sightings of Bruno—on the beach, in bars, gambling—while reports on Alicia, however, are next to none. And every clue keeps circling back to a man named Boris Real . . .At least that's how the story—or one of many stories, rather—goes. All of them are told by a journalist narrator, who recounts the mysterious case of the Vivar family from an underground laboratory where he and six other "subjects" have taken up a novel-game, writing and exchanging chapters over email, all while waiting for the fear-inducing drug hadón to take its effect, and their uncertain fates.A literary descendant of Roberto Bolaño and Andrés Neuman, Carlos Labbé's Navidad & Matanza is a work of metafiction that not only challenges our perceptions of facts and observations, and of identity and reality, but also of basic human trust. Carlos Labbé, one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists," was born in Chile and is the author of six novels, including Navidad & Matanza and Locuela, and a collection of short stories. In addition to his writings he is a musician, and has released three albums. He is a co-editor at Sangria, a publishing house based in Santiago and Brooklyn, where he translates and runs workshops. He also writes literary essays, the most notable ones on Juan Carlos Onetti, Diamela Eltit and Roberto Bolaño—three writers whose influence can be seen in Navidad & Matanza.Will Vanderhyden received an MA in Literary Translation from the University of Rochester. He has translated fiction by Carlos Labbé, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Juan Marsé, Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio, and Elvio Gandolfo.

Navidad & Matanza

Literature & Fiction

United States

Open Letter

"[Labbé] wreaks havoc on narrative rules from the start and keeps doing it."—Bookforum
Loquela, Carlos Labbé's fourth novel and second to be translated into English, is a narrative chameleon, a shape-shifting exploration of fiction's possibilities.
At a basic level, this book is like a hybrid of Julio Cortázar and Paul Auster: a distorted detective novel, a love story, and a radical statement about narrative art. Behind the silence that unites and separates Carlos and Elisa, behind the game that estranges the albino girls, Alicia and Violeta, from the best summer afternoons, behind the destiny of Neutria—a city that disappears with childhood and returns with desire—and behind a literary movement that might be the ultimate vanguard while at the same time the greatest falsification, questions arise concerning who truly writes for whom in a novel—the author or the reader.
Through an array of voices, overlapping storylines, a kaleidoscope of literary references, and a delirious prose, Labbé carves out a space for himself among such form-defying Latin American greats as Diamela Eltit, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Jorge Luis Borges.
Carlos Labbé, one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists," was born in Chile and is the author of a collection of short stories and six novels, one of which, Navidad &amp; Matanza, is available in English from Open Letter. In addition to his writings, he is a musician, and has released three albums.
Will Vanderhyden received an MA in literary translation from the University of Rochester.

Loquela

Literary

By blinking his eyes and moving his pupils, a paraplegic man―the onetime vocalist in a famous rock band―composes a kind of anti-biography that is corrected and expanded upon by an unknown editor. Alternating between the vocalist’s impressionistic recollections and the editor’s “corrections,” an asynchronous story emerges, evoking the vocalist’s childhood in southern Chile and telling of the rise and fall of the band that he grew up to lead, while hinting at a multiplicity of other narrative possibilities.

Spiritual Choreographies

On the eve of the 1962 World Cup in Chile, a retired sports commentator with a secret ability to influence living beings with his voice encounters one of the directors of the Chilean national team--a feminist with a covert agenda--on an overnight train ride to Santiago.&nbsp;The director convinces the commentator to return to broadcasting in order to call Chile's matches and to utilize his unique vocal power to determine their outcomes. &nbsp; Later, when Chile is facing off against Brazil in the semifinal match, the plan diverges from one of conventional victory and the narrative bifurcates, simultaneously tracking the action on the field and a startling sequence of events that is unfolding in one of the stadium's luxury boxes, and what initially looks like a story of intrigue and action and an exploration of class warfare, representation, and social justice, emerges as a novel that enacts the notion that art can only transcend through collective creative action.&nbsp; &nbsp; Within the world of Carlos Labbé's fiction, this novel can be understood as a continuation and broadening of the political project signaled in his early work and a doubling-down on the formal playfulness and elusive sensibility that characterizes all of his fiction. Popular forms and genres (from science fiction and journalism in&nbsp;Navidad & Matanza,&nbsp;to detective fiction in&nbsp;Loquela,&nbsp;to pop music and protest movements in&nbsp;Spiritual Choreographies) have always been integral to Labbé's oeuvre, and with&nbsp;The Murmuration&nbsp;he engages the world of professional soccer, making his most direct appeal to the masses yet.&nbsp;

The Murmuration

Coreografías espirituales (Largo Recorrido) (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Periferica

The plot of this detective novel is interrupted by the arrival of a true mystery. Beyond the silence that unites and separates Carlos and Elisa, beyond the game that keeps the albino girls Alicia and Violeta from pleasant summer evenings, beyond the destiny of Neutria—a city that disappears with childhood and resurfaces with desire—, and beyond a Chilean literary movement that could be the last vanguard while at the same time being the greatest falsehood, questions arise concerning who truly writes for whom in a novel—the author or the reader—, if a diary can also be a love letter, if one can rewrite Onetti if he in turn rewrote Faulkner, and, above all, how one can write a novel about the desire for permanence without inevitably writing about the mysteries of death. La trama de esta novela policiaca se interrumpe con la llegada de un verdadero misterio. Tras el silencio que une y separa a la pareja de Carlos y Elisa, tras el juego que enajena a las niñas albinas Alicia y Violeta de las mejores tardes veraniegas, tras el destino de Neutria—una ciudad que desaparece con la infancia y que regresa con el deseo—y tras un movimiento literario chileno que puede ser la última vanguardia a la vez que una gran falsificación, están las preguntas de quién escribe a quién en una novela—el autor o el lector—de si un diario íntimo puede al mismo tiempo ser una carta de amor, de si es posible reescribir a Onetti si éste reescribió a Faulkner y, sobre todo, de cómo hacer una novela sobre el deseo de permanencia sin terminar escribiendo sobre los misterios de la muerte.

Locuela (Biblioteca portátil) (Spanish Edition)

The characters in this novel change identity every other page in order to push the boundaries of their own story, thus creating a game board whose pieces advance towards an unthinkable ending. This is a tale of two towns called Christmas and Slaughter and of the secret they keep, which is explored in this game-like novel that, above all else, is an excellent and vigorous portrait of very uncommon characters. Los personajes de esta novela cambian de identidad a cada página para forzar los límites de su propio relato, creando así un tablero de juegos cuyas fichas avanzan hacia un final impensable. Se trata de dos pueblos, Navidad y Matanza, que encierran un misterio, el cual es explorado en esta novela juego que es, sobre todo, un excelente y vigoroso retrato de personajes muy poco comunes.

Navidad y Matanza (Biblioteca portátil) (Spanish Edition)

First published during 2015 in Spanish, 'La parv ' is the sixth novel by Chilean author Carlos Labb . 'La parv ', primera novela sobre el Campeonato Mundial de F tbol de Chile 1962, arranca durante la v spera nocturna de la inauguraci n del certamen. En un tren desde Temuco a Santiago, una dirigenta deportiva con intenciones secretas aborda a un retirado periodista radial para convencerlo de que vuelva a su labor de relator, en beneficio de la selecci n nacional. El periodista posee un don ins lito: mediante la narraci n en vivo su voz es capaz de mover a jugadores y equipos. Tras el hipn tico relato del partido de semifinales entre Chile y Brasil por parte de este narrador periodista, se revelar la trama oculta en el palco de la diplomacia chilena, la impotencia del pueblo en los pastos del estadio y el origen inesperadamente terrenal de un don que transforma a equipos, oyentes, lectores en parv . En esta, la sexta novela de Carlos Labb , cobran inesperada relevancia las negociaciones de lo no dicho en los relatos competitivos y capitalistas, tambi n en las decisiones de quienes desaparecen rumbo al sur -una dirigenta y un periodista deportivo- como si as pudieran predecir el estado actual de Chile.

La parvá (Spanish Edition)

Sangria Publishers

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