Lada Hazaiová Books

Monografie usiluje o postižení principů fantastična, zhodnocení hlavních teorií. Formování fantastické literatury v La Platě tvoří tři časové i formálně-tematické fáze. 60.–80. léta 19. století odráží povídková tvorba argentinských autorů: Juany Manuely Gorritiové a E. L. Holmberga, částečně v duchu evropského romantického fantastična, ale už s modifikací fantastična v sémantické i syntaktické rovině. Druhou zkoumanou fází rozmachu je období modernismu, dílo L. Lugonese (osobitá vědecká orientace fantastické povídky) a Horacia Quirogy (který je považován za zakladatele moderního konceptu fantastična). Třetí fáze vývoje spadá do 20.–70. let 20. století. Stěžejní období, jemuž je v práci věnováno nejvíce prostoru, je demonstrováno na díle Uruguayce Felisberta Hernándeze a Argentinky Silviny Ocampové, oba tito autoři naplňují model skrytých tváří fantastična, mají společnou poetiku fantastické každodennosti, jejich díla pronikla do povědomí čtenářské veřejnosti mnohem později, zaslouží si proto znovuobjevování.

Dark and haunting stories of contemporary Argentina.

In Bartleby Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers and non-writers who, like the scrivener Bartleby of the Herman Melville story, in answer to any question or demand, replies: "I would prefer not to." Addressing such "artists of refusal" as Robert Walser, Robert Musil, Arthur Rimbaud, Marcel Duchamp, Herman Melville, and J. D. Salinger, Bartleby Co. could be described as a meditation: a walking tour through the annals of literature. Written as a series of footnotes (a non-work itself), Bartleby embarks on such questions as why do we write, why do we exist? The answer lies in the novel itself: told from the point of view of a hermetic hunchback who has no luck with women, and is himself unable to write, Bartleby is an utterly engaging work of profound and philosophical beauty.

Puerto Esfinge – der Hafen der Sphinx – ist ein verwunschener Ort an der argentinischen Atlantikküste. Genau der richtige Platz für einen Kongress über Geheimsprachen, über Kryptologie, über ausgestorbene Sprachen. Eigentlich fährt Miguel De Blast nur hin, um seine Jugendliebe Ana wieder zu treffen, die er an seinen Rivalen Naum verloren hat. Naum ist jetzt ein Star im Literaturbetrieb und alle fiebern seinem Auftritt entgegen. Aber bevor der Meister eintrifft, beginnen die Rätsel: Erst werden Seehunde tot aufgefunden, dann mehrere Kongressteilnehmer. Die örtliche Polizei ist ratlos. Miguel De Blast gerät auf die Spur eines uralten Fluchs und einer magischen, vergessenen Sprache.

Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona. Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter - a demand - stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind. He arrives back in that old, labyrinthine and near-mythic city a few days before the great 1888 World Fair, amid dread whispers of murders - the injuries reminiscent of an ancient curse, and bearing signs of the genius 16th century anatomist, Vesalius. Daniel is soon pulled into the depths of the crime, and eventually into the tunnels below Barcelona, where his own dark past and the future of science are joined in a terrible venture - to bring the secret of Vesalius to life. Gothic and gripping, this historical thriller makes of Barcelona a diabolical character - emerging out of the dark into a new electrical age, aflame with spirit, superstition and science. Published in eighteen countries, Jordi Llobregat's bestselling first novel mixes a passionate setting and cryptic mystery into a genre-crossing phenomenon.

Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future. In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her mother–the only family Adelaida has ever known. Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside the window that she tapes shut every night—to prevent the tear gas raining down on protesters in the streets from seeping inWhen looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida resists and is beatenup . It is the beginning of a fight for survival in a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. But as fate would have it, Adelaida is given a gruesome choice that could secure her escape. Filled with riveting twists and turns, and told in a powerful, urgent voice, It Would Be Night in Caracas is a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble.

Alicia Kopf's genre-defying book rises as clear and cold as an Arctic sea, floating with ideas that, like icebergs, are buoyed up by meaning and memory below their surface.' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan.'In another country this book would have changed the course of history.' Enrique Vila-Matas.'As if by sleight of hand, Kopf displays a wide range of emotions before us. Like the Poles, they are constantly shifting, and inevitably epic.' Agustín Fernández Mallo.'A unconventional look at a world that makes [Kopf] feel uncomfortable . . . a text in which the feats of polar explorers give way to a central autobiographical story about the equally harsh and arid trips through family relationships and within oneself.' El País.'Simultaneously serious and light, incidental and yet trascendental.' El Periódico'A book, part essay and part autobiography, that is also a chronicle of a generation stalled in a world without horizons or certainties . . . An unusual book and the deserving winner of the Premi Documenta literary award.'La Vanguardia