Blue Light Hours
One of Electric Literature's '75 Books by Women of Color to Read in 2024' From the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut novel of a young Brazilian woman's first year in America, a continent away from her lonely mother, and the relationship they build over Skype calls across borders 'Utterly beautiful . . . The yearning in these pages will haunt me.'--Ayşeg l Savaş, author of White on White In a small dorm room at a liberal arts college in Vermont, a young woman settles into the warm blue light of her desk lamp before calling the mother she left behind in northeastern Brazil. Four thousand miles apart and bound by the angular confines of a Skype window, they ask each other a simple question: what's the news? Offscreen, little about their lives seems newsworthy. The daughter writes her papers in the library at midnight, eats in the dining hall with the other international students, and raises her hand in class to speak in a language the mother cannot
Introduction to Nonimaging Optics
Introduction to Nonimaging Optics covers the theoretical foundations and design methods of nonimaging optics, as well as key concepts from related fields. This fully updated, revised, and expanded Second Edition: Features a new and intuitive intro...
Hopscotch and Blow-Up
With his "counter-novel" Hopscotch and his unforgettable short stories, Julio Cortázar earned a place among the most innovative authors of the twentieth century. Hopscotch follows the adventures of an Argentinean writer living in Paris w...
Bestiary
A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortázar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin BarryA...
Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s 'Cortazar's masterpiece. This is the first great novel of Spanish America... A powerful anti-novel but, like deeply understood moments in life itself, rich with many...
A Manual for Manuel
In 1970s Paris, a group of revolutionaries plot the daring kidnapping of a powerful Latin American official. But among them is Andrés, a man adrift in a world of high-stakes politics. As Andrés spirals into a crisis of identity, Cortázar intersect...
Introduction to Nonimaging Optics
Introduction to Nonimaging Optics covers the theoretical foundations and design methods of nonimaging optics, as well as key concepts from related fields. This fully updated, revised, and expanded Second Edition: Features a new and intuitive intro...
Final Exam
Written in 1950 (just before the fall of Perón's government), Final Exam is Julio Cortázar's bitter and melancholy allegorical farewell to an Argentina from which he would soon be permanently self-exiled. In a surreal Buenos Aires, a strange fog h...
Music Technology
Emphasising the creative aspect of music technology, this introduction sets out an overview of the field for music students in a non-scientific and straightforward way. Engaging and user-friendly, the book covers studio concepts: basic audio and t...
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Divergent Modernities
With a Foreword by JosÉ David SaldÍvarSince its first publication in Spanish nearly a decade ago, Julio Ramos's Desenucuentros de la modernidad en America Latina por el siglo XIX has been recognized as one of the most important studies of modernit...
Speak Up, Santiago!
Speak Up, Santiago!
Poesía Completa Julio Cortázar / Complete Poetry by Julio Cortazar
La producci n po tica de Julio Cort zar, uno de los autores fundamentales de la literatura contempor nea en espa ol, escritor admirado y querido por lectores de sucesivas generaciones, es, tal vez, lo menos transitado de su obra. Sin embargo, la poes a fue siempre esencial para l. Escrita desde la m xima libertad y desde los m rgenes, y con una gran conciencia de la importancia del lenguaje, explora algunas zonas invisibles de la realidad. Est alejada de cualquier t pico y une conceptos tan s lo aparentemente contradictorios: historia y utop a, af n comunicativo y experimentaci n, contemplaci n y compromiso, sensibilidad y rebeld a... Este volumen, al cuidado de Andreu Jaume, incluye toda la poes a del autor publicada hasta el momento, a la que se une una secci n de poemas in ditos encontrados en el Fondo Daniel Devoto y Mar a Beatriz Valle-Incl n depositado en la Fundaci n L zaro Galdiano de Madrid. Como afirma Jaume en la nota introductoria, «el lector tiene en las manos la
