Weiss The Lights of Home

A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-97144-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiss, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Introduction: the lure of Paris
1. The voyage out (1893-1939)
The French reception
2. Writers' beginnings(Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alfredo Bryce Echenique)
3. Clarifying sojourns (Octavio Paz, Alejandra Pizarnik)
4. Diplomatic pastures (Miguel Angel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Pablo Neruda)
Tradition of Pilgrimage: the dream city
5. Interstitial spaces (Julio Cortázar)
6. Transgressive gestures (Severo Sarduy, Copi)
Outside Looking In: Paris, city of exiles
7. The privileged eye, writing from distance (Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Juan José Saer)
8. Tsuris of the margins (Luisa Futoransky)
Living in Another Language: the problem of audience, community
9. The translated self (Edgardo Cozarinsky)
10. New World transplants--foreigners in French (Eduardo Manet, Silvia Baron Supervielle)
11. Académicien (Hector Bianciotti)
Conclusion: the lights of home
Notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Weiss lived in Paris throughout the 1980s and has since taught Latin American literature at NYU, The New School, and Cooper Union. Currently he is a freelance writer, editor, and translator. His other books include Writing at Risk: Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers and Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader.