Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by Lois Parkinson Zamora. "The fictions of Muñiz-Huberman treat the contemporary emphasis on alienation, uncertainty, displacement, and exile through invented stories of ancient times..."—Hispanic Journal.

Enclosed Garden (Discoveries)

Literature & Fiction

Muñiz-Huberman, Angelina

United States

Latin American Literary Review

One day two women gather to tell stories. As the stories take life, the two women become their characters. A day and night of telling builds into a crescendo of unimaginable truth where the boundaries between story, fable, and myth evaporate like breath and words. Personal memories and nighttime dreams are woven into romances and exotic yarns from Casablanca to Catalunya. Plumbing the depths of human sentiment and existence, the confidantes lead us into veiled pathways rarely traveled. Angelina Muñiz-Huberman's writing is lyrical and alluring, and Andrea Labinger's translation preserves the magic.

The Confidantes

Muiz-Huberman, Angelina

Literary

Gaon Books

In this English translation of the 1993 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize winner Dulcinea encantada (1992) by Mexican author Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Dulcinea travels in a car writing novels in her mind about several Dulcineas: a medieval princess on a quest, a nineteenth-century lady-in-waiting in Mexico, and a twentieth-century young woman who was sent to Russia as a girl to escape the Spanish Civil War and later journeys to Mexico to reunite with her parents. Unsure of her identity, Dulcinea remembers, debates, and records memories of her exile. As she circles Mexico City, she examines the role of memory, speech, and writing through her fragmented narrative voice. Dulcinea explores her place in the world through storytelling, blurring the line between reality and imagination. This novel pairs a lyrical and contemplative style with experimental writing to present common themes of identity formation and exile in a unique form. Dulcinea's quest is also one of spiritual connection with apocalyptic and mystical overtones. With allusions to both Christian and Jewish mystical traditions, this novel reveals a crypto-Jewish presence typical of Muñiz-Huberman's writing, forming part of a Sephardic literary tradition. This edition includes an introduction and annotations by the translator, Rebecca Marquis.

Enchanted Dulcinea (Jewish Women in the Americas)

Lexington Books

Angelina Muñiz-Huberman's historical novel, A Mystical Journey, combines poetic prose and an improbable happy ending. Within the structure of the archetypal journey of the hero, a Jewish teenager in late sixteenth-century Spain manages to avoid the Inquisition by joining a perilous Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He is assisted by a magical muleteer who appears and disappears periodically in different guises until the protagonist and his beloved Miriam are safely settled in the northern town of Safed. Although the author's attention to Jewish history and her poetic style mark the majority of her books of fiction and essays, A Mystical Journey is one of her most important works and one that contributes to her reputation as one of the most important contemporary writers in Mexico and Latin America.

A Mystical Journey

“The uniqueness of Angelina Muñiz-Huberman’s historical novel lies in its combination of poetic prose, apparent simplicity, and a happy ending. Within the structure of the archetypal journey of the hero, a Jewish teenager in sixteenth-century Spain manages to avoid the Inquisition by joining a perilous Christian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He is assisted by a magical muleteer who appears and disappears periodically in different guises until the protagonist and his beloved Miriam are safely settled in the northern town of Safed. “Although the author’s fascination with Jewish history and her poetic style mark the majority of her books of fiction and essays, I consider Dreaming of Safed to be her most important work and one that contributes significantly to her reputation as one of Mexico’s and Latin America’s most important writers.” Prof. Seymour Menton (Translator) University of California

Dreaming of Safed

Dulcinea encantada

Tusquets

La Cábala, cuyo significado se refiere a la tradición o recepción, es un método esotérico de contemplación a la vez que de análisis semántico. Entre sus características está la de incorporar el mundo mítico dentro del pensamiento judío. El presente estudio abarca dos partes: las fuentes del cabalismo hispanohebreo y el proceso de cristianización en autores de la Edad Media y el Renacimiento.

Las raíces y las ramas. Fuentes y derivaciones de la Cábala hispanohebrea (Lengua Y Estudios Literarios) (Spanish Edition)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

El mercader de Tudela narra el incierto viaje de un hombre que va al encuentro de s mismo: un rabino de Sefarad, entrev en un sue o su verdadero destino y decide abandonar sus estudios de la Tor Para convertirse en un mercader errante. Mu iz-Huberman (1936) escribe una p gina m s de ese libro ancestral en donde un pueblo n mada encuentra la nica y verdadera tierra a la que se puede volver siempre.

El mercader de Tudela (Letras Mexicanas) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

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Enclosed Garden (Discoveries)

The Confidantes

Enchanted Dulcinea (Jewish Women in the Americas)

Enchanted Dulcinea (Jewish Women in the Americas)

A Mystical Journey

Dreaming of Safed

Dulcinea encantada

Las raíces y las ramas. Fuentes y derivaciones de la Cábala hispanohebrea (Lengua Y Estudios Literarios) (Spanish Edition)

El mercader de Tudela (Letras Mexicanas) (Spanish Edition)