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Larva: A Midsummer Night's Babel
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Julian Rios, Richard Alan Francis (Translator), Suzanne Jill Levine
A STRIKING REASSESSMENT OF THE DON JUAN MYTH A literary tour de force, this extraordinary novel is told in single-minded pursuit of double meanings, but it is serious play. LARVA is a rollicking account of a masquerade party in an abandoned mansion in London. Milalias (disguised as Don Juan) searches for Babelle (as Sleeping Beauty) through a ...
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Asleep in the Sun
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Adolfo Bioy Casares, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator)
Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his wife (not the easiest person to get along with) and family and job (he lost it) finds he has a much bigger problem: his wife is a dog. At first, it doesn't seem like such a problem, because the German shepherd inhabiting his wife's body is actually a good deal ...
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A Russian Doll and Other Stories
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Adolfo Bioy Casares, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator)
A Russian Doll and Other Stories, published in Spanish in 1991 as Una muneca rusa, is the ninth collection of short fiction by one of this century's premier Argentinian writers who, with his fellow countrymen Julio Cortazar and Jorge Luis Borges, helped change the world's perception of Latin American literature. Bioy Casares' narratives are ...
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Manuel Puig and the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions
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This biography of the Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1932-1990), author of KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, was written by his friend and translator, Suzanne Levine. It stresses Puig's film-centered childhood, during which he saw a movie nearly every day; his discovery of his homosexuality; the diligence and discipline with which he practiced his art; ...
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The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction
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Suzanne Jill Levine
A classic study of the art of translation from one of our greatest translators.
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Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions
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This biography of the Argentinean writer Manuel Puig (1932-1990), author of KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, was written by his friend and translator, Suzanne Levine. It stresses Puig's film-centered childhood, during which he saw a movie nearly every day; his discovery of his homosexuality; the diligence and discipline with which he practiced his art; ...
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Selected Stories
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Adolfo Bioy Casares (Translator), Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator)
The stories in this collection are drawn from various collections published from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s in Spanish. It is aptly divided into two parts, "The Labyrinth of Love" which foregrounds the authors amatory tales, and "Adverse Miracles" which are admirable examples of Bioy Casares's canny metaphysical speculations and wry Magical ...
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Christ on the Rue Jacob
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Severo Sarduy, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator), Carol Maier (Translator)
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Cobra: And, Maitreya
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Severo Sarduy, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator), James McCourt (Introduction by)
"Cobra" is a surrealist work in which the eponymous hero/ine, a transvestite performer, obsesses about her shoe size while she and her assistants morph into Tibetan lamas during a motorcycle gang-bang. "Maitreya" concerns a reborn Buddha named Luis Leng, and is also filled with much morphing and mutation.
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Maestros hispánicos del siglo veinte
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Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Suzanne Jill Levine
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Alejandra Pizarnik: A Profile
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Alejandra Pizarnik, Maria R. Fort (Translator), Suzanne Jill Levine
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All fires the fire, and other stories
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Julio Cort:azar, Suzanne Jill Levine
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Escriba Subversiva: Una Poetica de La Traduccion
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Hell Has No Limits
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Josa(c) Donoso, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator)
An early work of José Donoso, this novel tells the story of one day in the life of a decaying community peopled by prostitutes and transvestites.
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Hell Has No Limits (Old Edition)
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Jose Donoso, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator)
An early work of José Donoso, this novel tells the story of one day in the life of a decaying community peopled by prostitutes and transvestites.
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Manuel Puig Y La Mujer Arana
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Suzanne Jill Levine
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Heartbreak Tango
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Manuel Puig, Suzanne Jill Levine (Translator)
Juan Carlos, a self-styled ladies' man, is dying of tuberculosis. The four women in his life keep watch over him: his doting mother, his vigilant, protective sister, and the two current loves of his life--one a portrait of purity, the other as wicked as she is seductive.They all bemoan Juan's cruel destiny, and their devotion to him is so ...
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Latin America fiction & poetry in translation.
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Suzanne Jill Levine, Center for Inter-American Relations
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