Doña Barbara
Any author who has been both nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature and exiled from his country because of the strength of his criticisms against the nation’s longstanding dictatorship deserves to be taken note of. Rómulo Gallegos in his acclaimed novel, Doña Barbara, hailed as a classic of Latin American literature, ...
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Latest Review: "Doña Barbara" by Rómulo Gallegos
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Pierce Alquist on Rómulo Gallegos’s Doña Barbara, which is translated from the Spanish by Robert Malloy and is available from The University of Chicago Press Books. Any author who has been both nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature and exiled from his ...
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VQR on South America
The interactive map is pretty, yet kind of annoying, but the content of the new issue of Virginia Quarterly Review is pretty great. Entitled “South America in the 21st Century,” this issue has pieces by Daniel Alarcon, Edmundo Paz Soldan, Kristina Cordero, and an excerpt from Bolano’s Nazi Literature in ...
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