Aline Glastra van Loon Knihy

Set against the backdrop of New Year's Eve 1975, two poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, embark on a quest from Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala to find the elusive Cesárea Tinajero, a vanished poet. Their journey takes a violent turn in the Sonora desert, forcing them into a life on the run for twenty years. This ambitious novel captures their experiences through the perspectives of various characters they encounter across Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. Among them are the enchanting Font sisters, their father in a Mexico City asylum, a devoted follower of Octavio Paz, a brash American grad student, a French girl with a penchant for the Marquis de Sade, the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky, a Chilean stowaway gifted with numbers, an anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire, and an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola, alongside a host of critics, lovers, and vagabonds. Roberto Bolaño, a literary descendant of Borges and Pynchon, explores the intricate relationship between literature and violence, revealing a world where national boundaries blur and death is ever-present in the avant-garde. This work stands as a remarkable testament to the vitality of contemporary Latin American literature.

Composed in the last two years of Bolaño's life, 2666 has been greeted as his greatest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness,beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters include academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student caring for her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the desert sprawl of Santa Teresa--a fictional Juárez--on the US-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared. Audacious, impassioned and profoundly inspired, 2666 is Roberto Bolaño’s masterwork.

Publisher's description. From one of Spain's most acclaimed literary voices comes a rich and complex portrait of mutual deception, toxic love and cruel, lingering guilt. A youth caught in the middle of someone else's bitter marriage; a beautiful woman scorned; a man torn between conscience and will. Step into the melancholic, unforgiving world of Javier Marías. Penguin

Prvý diel ohlasovaných trojdielnych pamätí Gabriela Garcíu Márqueza Román môjho života popisuje obdobie od spisovateľovho narodenia po štúdiá na univerzite v Bogote. Pamäti sú publicisticko-literárnym spracovaním spomienok, ktoré ovplyvnili život a najmä tvorbu autora. Dozvieme sa, že pochádza z chudobnej mnohodetnej rodiny, dlhé roky zažíval biedu na vlastnej koži. K vysnívanému spisovateľskému povolaniu ho doviedla len túžba po vzdelaní a obetavosť rodičov i súrodencov. Pochopíme, aký vplyv mali na Márquezovu tvorbu jeho starí rodičia, u ktorých vyrastal. Popisuje bohémsky literárny život a kolumbijské kultúrne prostredie 40-tych a 50-tych rokov. Všetky zážitky a postrehy Márquez pretavil do svojich úžasných diel a vytvoril kolumbijský národný román.

Mario Vargas Llosa, geboren 1936 in Arequipa/Peru, studierte Geistes- und Rechtswissenschaften in Lima und Madrid. Während seines Studiums begann er, für verschiedene Zeitschriften zu schreiben und veröffentlichte erste Erzählungen. 1963 erschien sein erster Roman. Der peruanische Romanautor und Essayist ist als politischer Autor bekannt und hat auch international großen Erfolg. Zu seinen bedeutendsten Werken zählen mehrere Romane, die sich mit gesellschaftlichen und politischen Themen auseinandersetzen. Vargas Llosa ist Ehrendoktor mehrerer Universitäten in Amerika und Europa und hat Gastprofessuren an renommierten Institutionen wie Harvard und Oxford gehalten. 1990 kandidierte er für die oppositionelle Frente Democrático (FREDEMO) bei den peruanischen Präsidentschaftswahlen, unterlag jedoch in der Stichwahl und zog sich danach aus der aktiven Politik zurück. Er erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, darunter den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 1996 und den Nobelpreis für Literatur 2010. Heute lebt er in Madrid und Lima. Elke Wehr, geboren 1946 in Bautzen und verstorben 2008 in Berlin, studierte Romanistik und konzentrierte sich auf die Übersetzung spanischer und lateinamerikanischer Prosa ins Deutsche. Sie lebte in Madrid und Berlin.

With high black humor, a visiting Spanish lecturer bends his gaze over that most British of institutions, Oxford University.

Román Rodina Pascuala Duarta (1942) význačného španělského autora zobrazuje dusnou atmosféru fašistického režimu na osudovém zřetězení událostí v životě jednotlivce, který je okolnostmi dohnán k vraždě a od té chvíle neodvratně spěje ke konečné katastrofě.

Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager in Lima in 1950, and next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting Comrade Arlette. In Llosa's beguiling novel, the strange bedfellows of good and bad turn out not to be what they appear.

Every day, Maria Dolz stops at the same cafe. And every day she watches a couple following the same routine. Then one day they aren't there. She comes across a photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street. When the woman returns with her children, who are then collected by a different man, a new light is shed on the death."

Autobiografisch getint relaas van de speurtocht van een Argentijnse jongeman in de jaren '50 naar het Europa van zijn ouders.