The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez explores the ways in which stories shape lives. In an interview, Vasquez discusses how someone else's past devours the hero's present, reading his ...own work in translation and his awareness of the Latino-American fiction tradition.
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25.
Retrospective: A Novel Martino, Andrew
World Literature Today,
11/2023, Letnik:
97, Številka:
6
Book Review
Recenzirano
Riverhead Books. 2023.436 pages. The first part, "Encounter in Barcelona," mostly depicts Faustos life, his marriage, and the birth of his two children. ...more than that, it paves the way for Fausto ...to "act" in several parts throughout his life, such as husband, father, actor, and rebel, thus forming and manipulating the lives of his children.
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26.
Briefly Noted SAMEEN GAUHAR; Palmer, Andrew; Eby, Margaret ...
The New Yorker,
10/2016, Letnik:
92, Številka:
32
Magazine Article
Reputations Martinez, Sara
Booklist,
08/2016, Letnik:
112, Številka:
22
Book Review
In this quick, disquieting read, internationally acclaimed Colombian writer Vásquez (The Sound of Things Falling, 2013) explores the reaches of the power employed almost casually by a famous and ...influential political cartoonist. As the novel opens, Javier Mallorino, who works for a newspaper in Bogotá, Colombia, is having his shoes shined in preparation for a ceremony marking his appearance on a postage stamp.
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In this story collection, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean, Vásquez returns repeatedly to triangular relationships. He has been compared to fellow South American Roberto Bolaño, but the ...more apt analog)' may be James Salter, who works in a similarly spare style and is also unafraid to write about sex.
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