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Friday, September 21, 2012

Angolan, Brazilian, Mozambiquean, Catalan, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Spanish, Dominican, Uruguayan, and Argentine book porn

Pepetela (Angola) and Mia Couto (Mozambique)
Over the past week or so, either through my two trips to Nashville's largest used bookstore, McKay's, or through purchases online, I have acquired an interesting collection of books from authors from various parts of the world.  While I could have also included books from English-language writers (and a few more Spanish and Italian authors), I thought I'd just post these to highlight some works/authors that likely are not all that familiar to Anglophone readers.

Álvaro Pacheco (Brazil), Oswald de Andrade (Brazil)

Josep Maria de Sagarra (Catalan), Rogério Bessa, ed. (Brazil)

Arcipreste de Hita (Spain), Mario Benedetti (Uruguay)

Rosario Ferré (Puerto Rico), Alfredo Iriarte (Colombia)

Alina Diaconú (Argentina), Ángela Hernández Núñez (Dominican Republic)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you get a chance I recommend Barthes' Mythologies.

A great book, and I think you'll particularly enjoy the essay on wrestling as performance. :-)

-Saj/Sci

Larry Nolen said...

I'll look into it, but it may be months at least before I get around to it. Seems I've started a massive read/re-reading project with a friend of mine to go with the D&D/YA reads that another is having me do (her reviews should appear here in the near future).

John said...

Wow,that Mario Benedetti book cover is a beauty!

Larry Nolen said...

It truly is! I read it that day and the layout of illustrations and poems made each better, for me at least.

 
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