Alejandro Zambra

Not to Read

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In Not to Read, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading that also offers a kind of blurry self-portrait, or literary autobiography. Whether writing about Natalia Ginzburg, typewriters and computers, Paul Léautaud, or how to be silent in German, his essays function as a laboratory for his novels, a testing ground for ideas, readings and style. Not to Read also presents an alternative pantheon of Latin American literature - Zambra would rather talk about Nicanor Parra than Pablo Neruda, Mario Levrero than Gabriel García Márquez. His voice is that of a trusted friend telling you about a book or an author he's excited about… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mcdowell, Megan (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-910695-64-7
EAN: 9781910695647
Produktnummer: 27144997
Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 270 KB

Über den Autor

Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer, poet, and critic. His first novel Bonsai was awarded Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel. He is also the author of The Private Lives of Trees and Ways of Going Home, which won the Altazor Award and the National Council Prize for Books, both for the best Chilean novel. My Documents, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2015, was shortlisted for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. His latest novel is Multiple Choice. His writing has been translated into more than fifteen languages and has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Tin House, Harper's, Granta and McSweeney's, among other places. He was a 2015-16 Cullman Center fellow at the New York Public Library. He lives in Mexico City.