A political satire edged with fantasy, this book traces the life and rise to political power in an unnamed South American country of a witch doctor--"The Master"--a character modelled on Lopez Rega, Isabel Peron's Interior Minister

The Lizard's Tail (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Valenzuela, Luisa

Contemporary

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A psychological novel of murder and obsession enters the minds of Agustin, an Argentine writer living in New York who has murdered a woman he met only once, and Roberta, his lover, who struggles to understand the crime she may have inspired

Black Novel

Random House Value Publishing

In great overall shape. Please note that the text is entirely in Spanish.

Cambio De Armas (Spanish and English Edition)

Literary

Ediciones Del Norte

Novela Negra Con Argentinos (Plaza & Janés literaria) (Spanish Edition)

Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona). 22 cm. 202 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Valenzuela, Luisa 1938-. Plaza & Janés literaria .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-01-38171-1

Novela negra con argentinos (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

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.

The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories

Humor & Satire

Curbstone Books

A professor of semiotics who doubles as a psychologist in Barcelona visits (always in disguise) a prostitute in the early morning hours on Mondays and Thursdays in order to analyze her without her knowing it. The story moves from Barcelona to Mexico to Buenos Aires, but above all it is about Argentina: its recent history, its 30,000 missing children, its stunned middle class, its writers in exile. He Who Searches is multifaceted in structure, combining narrative references to old-fashioned storytelling, realism, psychoanalysis, feminism, politics, and suspense, all of them tinged with a patina of eroticism that reflects a feminist perspective. Ultimately the disguises of the plot--transvestism, transsexualism, differing sexual points of view--become pieces in a puzzle tha can be taken apart to create other figures, other puzzles. It ends with its narrator back in Buenos Aires: He who searches, finds.

He Who Searches (Latin American Literature)

Dalkey Archive Press

Interhuman emotion is explored with expert precision in this collection of short stories that hover between the fantastical and the real, the poetic and the plainspoken. In “The Cove,” one of the author's best known stories, desire and hatred flare under the jungle sun in Argentina. The collection also includes a story cowritten with her friend Jorge Luis Borges and a prologue by her daughter, the writer Luisa Valenzuela.

The Two Siblings and Other Stories

Levinson, Luisa Mercedes

Lipp, Sylvia Ehrlich

Latin American Literary Review Press

Issue 20 features work by Luisa Valenzuela (translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz), Alvin Lu, J. Weintraub, Jessica Love, Keith Carver, Karen An-hwei Lee, Christopher Clubb, Mike Dressel, Jorge Enrique Botero (translated by David Feller Pegg), Talal Alyan, Carl-Christian Elze (translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul), Bijan Najdi (translated by Parisa Saranj), and Amy Forstadt. Cover art by Jerry Seguin.

Your Impossible Voice #20

Carver, Keith

Love, Jessica

Najdi, Bijan

Lu, Alvin

Weintraub, J.

An-hwei Lee, Karen

Christian Elze, Carl

Dressel, Mike

Enrique Botero, Jorge

Independently published

The passions, frustrations, fleeting affairs, and failed relationships of an Argentinian writer in New York.

Dark Desires and the Others (Argentinian Literature)

Fuentes Winner Luisa Valenzuela nails mother-daughter dynamic. Award Winner Ursula K. Le Guin reveals benefits of preaching to the choir. Mahmoud Darwish explores states of siege. Julie Busic reminds us wars reverberate long after the shooting's stopped. New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler visits Occupy Wall St. & survives the day. Portland chronicler Jennifer Robin travels Portland's neofeudal Public Transport, & survives the night. Melanie Alldritt looks at looking at looking at that girl's hair in an infinite loop. Portland tr. OR. Book Award Finalist Matthew Robinson writes a timelapse Western history. From further afield we've cartoons from director & illustrator Liz Swados, & Lithuanian Holocaust scholar Migle Anusauskaite; Cristina Álvarez Lopez runs with Keith Jarrett; Croatian writer Josip Razum shows a man, his wife, his family & a painting; Danish Birgit Munch describes peculiar disownments; Vénus Khoury-Ghata, tr. by Marilyn Hacker, reveals a secret prehistory of words. Oz poet Les Murray offers precise perceptions & Swiss author Christoph Keller recalls Murray's kindness; Croatian Armin Harambasic shows all of life, waiting at a train station. Lidia Yuknavitch hatches an escape from Group, Susan Daitch guards the night, Rick Moody names all things legends omit. Mo Daviau nails Norman Mailer; Oscar winner Frederic Raphael nails a tale told by Petronius. Croatian graphic artist Mirolsav Nemeth takes a gleeful graphic journey to Rome. Japanese artist Midori Oki's art installation dives beneath the skin; Croatian Monica Herceg & Estonian Triin Paja relate souls to forests; Lance Olsen shows a digressive street encounter between Bowie & a neighborhood character; Croatian essayist Dubravka Oraic Tolic shows how the world changed even before Baader Meinhof. PNW writers Poe Ballantine & Kurt Eisenlohr go their sardonic ways while Mark Sargent describes being anywhere with Gregory Corso. Poets near & far: Coleman Stevenson, Leanne Grabel, Armin Tolentino, Brenda Taulbee, David Biespiel; Greek poets Dinos Siotis, Thanos Gogos, Phoebe Giannisi, Petros Skythiotis, poets fr. other climes, Robert Walser, Miroslav Kirin, Tomica Bajsic, Nina Wieda, Andrei Sen-Senkov, & Marge Piercy. Prose fr. Peter Fogtdal, & graphics fr. Tania Cardoso (Rio/Rotterdam) complete Gobshite 2023.

Gobshite Quarterly 2023, #41/42: 20th. anniversary issue

Comics & Graphic Novels

MOODY, RICK

Le Guin,Ursula K.

Graphic Novels

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