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Paraíso travel

Paraíso travel

Jorge Franco-Ramos

Comme dans La Fille aux ciseaux, Jorge Franco dresse ici le portrait d'une génération désespérée au cœur d'un monde de violence.
Paraíso travel

Paraíso travel

Jorge Franco

Una novela de Jorge Franco autor de Rosario Tijeras y ganador del Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2014.
El mundo de afuera (Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2014)

El mundo de afuera (Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2014)

Jorge Franco

Con un perfecto manejo de la tensión, Jorge Franco construye en esta novela un cuento de hadas con tintes tenebrosos que acaba convirtiéndose en la historia desquiciada de un secuestro.
Paradise Travel: A Novel

Paradise Travel: A Novel

Jorge Franco

Praise for Rosario Tijeras: "Latin America's McOndo literary movement drags the butterflies of magical realism into Burger King. With Jorge Franco's narco-saga Rosario Tijeras, it may have found its first masterpiece." —Rachel Aviv, Salon
Selected Poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade

Selected Poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade

Jorge Carrera Andrade

Selected Poems of Jorge Carrer a Andrade Bilingual Edition Edited and Translated with an Introduction by H. R. Hays While Latin American poets such as Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, and Octavio Paz have been receiving most of the ...
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Tim McNeese

2 Amy Sickels, “Biography of Jorge Luis Borges” in Jorge Luis Borges. Edited by Harold Bloom (Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004), 8. 3 Edwin Williamson, Borges, A Life (New York: Viking Penguin, 2004) p. 4. 4 Ibid. 5 Jorge Luis ...
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection ...

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Jorge Luis Borges Collection ...

C. Jared Loewenstein

469. Borges, Jorge Luis. La hermana de Eloisa. Jorge Luis Borges. Luisa M. Levinson. Buenos Aires: Ene Editorial, [1955]. [1-6] 7-71 [72-80] p. 19.5 cm. ( Section fiction.) BECCO114 470. Borges, Jorge Luis. "El hijo de su amigo." (In: Eco, Vol.
Rosario Tijeras: una novela

Rosario Tijeras: una novela

Jorge Franco Ramos

It is Ramos’ first novel to be -published in the United States. Gregory Rabassa (Translator) received the National Book Award for translation in 1967 for Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch.
Rosario Tijeras: A Novel

Rosario Tijeras: A Novel

Jorge Franco

A work in the Latin American social realist tradition, Rosario Tijeras is told in fast and vibrant prose and with poetic flourish. From the Hardcover edition.
Melodrama

Melodrama

Jorge Franco

Perla, Vidal, Milord, los personajes principales, protagonizan esta tragicomedia como si no fueran conscientes del turbio destino que han elegido, viviendo desaforadamente, corriendo tras el placer, el dinero o cualquier cosa con qué ...
Beyond Borders: Immigration and the Construction of Latin@ ...

Beyond Borders: Immigration and the Construction of Latin@ ...

John Riofrio

This project thus focuses on four writers from Latin America, widely considered among the most influential of their generations---Jorge Franco of Colombia, Chilean-born Alberto Fuguet, Dominican-American Junot Diaz, and the formerly exiled ...
Jorge Teillier:

Jorge Teillier:

Teresa R. Stojkov

See, for example, Lucia Guerra-Cunningham, "The Concept of Marginality in To a Ghost Town by Jorge Teillier," Pacific Coast Philology 16:2 (1981): 45-55; Julie Jones, "El parafso perdido de la niriez en la poesfa de Jorge Teillier," Revista ...
Franco-Americans of New England: Dreams and Realities

Franco-Americans of New England: Dreams and Realities

Yves Roby

In "The Franco-Americans of New England" Yves Roby describes the first-person accounts of French Canadians' immigration to New England, as well as those of their descendants, and the Franco-Americans.
Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America

Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America

Jorge I. Domínguez

This new, one-volume edition, edited by Jorge I. DomA-nguez and Michael Shifter, offers a concise update to current scholarship in this important area of international studies.
Psychiatry Inside Out: Selected Writings of Franco Basaglia

Psychiatry Inside Out: Selected Writings of Franco Basaglia

Franco Basaglia

A collection of essays by an Italian psychiatrist includes discussions of deviance, mental asylum reform, and the nature of madness
Franco (Text Only)

Franco (Text Only)

Paul Preston

Generalissimo Francisco Franco, the Caudillo of Spain from the Nationalists' brutal, Fascist-sponsored victory over the Republican government in the Spanish Civil War until his quiet death in 1975, is the subject of this book.
Marijuana: Jorge's Rx

Marijuana: Jorge's Rx

Jorge Cervantes

This resource is a compilation of the best questions and answers from the author's column in "High Times." Countless cultivation questions are answered; each leads to a heavy harvest.
Jorge Amado: New Critical Essays

Jorge Amado: New Critical Essays

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Popular Music and the Fiction of Jorge Amado1 CHARLES A. PERRONE Novelists of the second generation of Brazilian Modernism were often preoccupied with depicting regional traits in pursuit of brasiltdade' or Brazilian, ness, the stuff of ...
Franco American Dreams

Franco American Dreams

Julie Taylor

A fashion design student with her eyes firmly set on the runways of the future, Abbie MacPherson wavers when romance calls in the shape of a red-haired hunk named Franco, and she finds herself distracted from her life purpose.
The Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics

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“The Transformation of Mexico's Electoral and Party Systems, 1988–97: An Introduction.” In Toward Mexico's Democratization, ed. Jorge I. Domínguez and Alejandro Poiré. New York: Routledge. Domínguez, Jorge I., and Chappell Lawson, ...
Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Jorge Luis Borges

Borges expresses his contempt for Peron and assesses the tumultuous politics of Argentina. He speaks also of the imagination as a type of dreaming, about issues of collaboration and translation, about philosophy, and about time.
Distant Reading

Distant Reading

Franco Moretti

In the ten essays collected in this volume, Franco Moretti reconstructs the intellectual trajectory of his philosophy of ‘distant reading’.
Ficciones

Ficciones

Jorge Borges

To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

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