Ramón del Valle-Inclán

Peter R. Bush

An NYRB Classics Original The first great twentieth-century novel of dictatorship, and the avowed inspiration for García Márquez’sThe Autumn of the Patriarchand Roa Bastos’sI, the Supreme,Tyrant Banderasis a dark and dazzling portrayal of a mythical Latin American republic in the grip of a monster. Ramón del Valle-Inclán, one of the masters of Spanish modernism, combines the splintered points of view of a cubist painting with the campy excesses of 19th-century serial fiction to paint an astonishing picture of a ruthless tyrant facing armed revolt. It is the Day of the Dead, and revolution has broken out, creating mayhem from Baby Roach’s Cathouse to the Harris Circus to the deep jungle of Tico Maipú. Tyrant Banderas steps forth, assuring all that he is in favor of freedom of assembly and democratic opposition. Mean­while, his secret police lock up, torture, and execute students and Indian peasants in a sinister castle by the sea where even the sharks have tired of a diet of revolutionary flesh. Then the opposition strikes back. They besiege the dictator’s citadel, hoping to bring justice to a downtrodden, starving populace. Peter Bush’s new translation of Valle-Inclán’s seminal novel, the first into English since 1929, reveals a writer whose tragic sense of humor is as memorably grotesque and disturbing as Goya’s in hisThe Disasters of War.

Tyrant Banderas

Anne McLean

Ignacio Padilla

Three men, including a railway signalman, a World War I hero and Nazi general, and a master chess player, find key events in their lives intertwining them as the events of the first and second World Wars thrust them together at the center of a dangerous game.

Shadow Without a Name

Quim Monzó

Presents a collection of short stories with a theme of irony, including one in which a young boy in scolded by his teacher for coming to school with a neck wound.

A Thousand Morons

An anthology of stories by Cuban writers. In Uva de Aragon's Round Trip, when a Cuban woman dies while visiting her sister in the U.S. the sister adopts her identity and returns to Cuba. In the title story, by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, a boy pays dearly for coitus with an overturned female giant turtle.

An Anthology of Cuban Stories

The Voice of the Turtle

Kirsten Malmkjær

This selection of papers from the ITI s landmark First International Colloquium on Literary Translation includes provocative perspectives on the teaching, research and status of literary education in universities. By way of introduction "Peter Bush" looks at strategies for raising the profile of the theory and practice of literary translation, its professionalisation and role in the development of national and international cultures. "Nicholas Round" and "Edwin Gentzler" explore undergraduate teaching of translation in the UK and the US while "Douglas Robinson" gives a Woody Allenish frame to an experience of pedagogy. "Susan Bassnett" sets out an overview of the development of research in Translation Studies that is complemented by case studies of translations of Shakespeare s Letter-Puns by "Dirk Delabastita" and of Molly Bloom s Soliloquy by "Maria Angeles Code Parrilla." "Kirsten Malmkjaer" and "Masako Taira" respectively review translating Hans Christian Andersen and the Japanese particle "ne" as examples of the relationship between linguistics and literary translation. "Ian Craig" examines the impact of censorship on the translation of children s fiction in Francoist Spain. Developing the international perspective, "Else Vieira" considers paradigms for translation in Latin America from concretist poetics to post-modernism

Literary Translation in Higher Education

Rimbaud's Rainbow

Leonardo Padura

The first of the Havana quartet featuring Inspector Mario Conde, a tropical Marlowe. A young transvestite in a red evening dress is found strangled in Havana Park. Conde's investigation reveals the dark world of those born in the revolution who live without dreaming of exile and seek their identity in the midst of disaster. In a country plagued by corruption and economic breakdown everyone wears a mask to survive. 'A magnificent novel. An author haunted by the tragic story and the passion and emotion of his characters' - Magazine Litteraire

Havana Red

Juan Goytisolo

This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.

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