Jaguars' Tomb

Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts, written by three interconnected characters. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Recounting from Zero" ("Contar desde zero"), in which Evelynne Harrington, author of the third, is a central character. Harrington, finally, is the author of "Uncertainty" ("La incertidumbre"), whose protagonist is the dying Igarzábal. Each of the three parts revolves around the octagonal room that is alternately the jaguars' tomb, the central space of the torture center, and the heart of an abandoned house that hides an adulterous affair. The novel, by Argentine author Angélica Gorodischer, is both an intriguing puzzle and a meditation on how to write about, or through, violence, injustice, and loss. Among Gorodischer's many novels, Jaguars' Tomb most directly addresses the abductions and disappearances that occurred under the Argentine military dictatorship of 1976-83. This is the fourth of Gorodischer's books translated into English. The first, Kalpa Imperial--translated by Ursula Le Guin--was selected for the New York Times summer reading list in 2003.

Literature & Fiction

Gorodischer, Angélica

United States

Vanderbilt University Press

Product Description Jaguars' Tomb is a novel in three parts, written by three interconnected characters. Part one, "Hidden Variables" by María Celina Igarzábal, is narrated by Bruno Seguer. Seguer in turn is the author of the second part, "Recounting from Zero" ("Contar desde zero"), in which Evelynne Harrington, author of the third, is a central character. Harrington, finally, is the author of "Uncertainty" ("La incertidumbre"), whose protagonist is the dying Igarzábal. Each of the three parts revolves around the octagonal room that is alternately the jaguars' tomb, the central space of the torture center, and the heart of an abandoned house that hides an adulterous affair. The novel, by Argentine author Angélica Gorodischer, is both an intriguing puzzle and a meditation on how to write about, or through, violence, injustice, and loss. Among Gorodischer's many novels, Jaguars' Tomb most directly addresses the abductions and disappearances that occurred under the Argentine military dictatorship of 1976–83. This is the fourth of Gorodischer's books translated into English. The first, Kalpa Imperial—translated by Ursula Le Guin—was selected for the New York Times summer reading list in 2003. Review "One of the highest points of Gorodischer's poetic art." --Book Radar"The whole novel can only be read as a poetic of writing, an institutional attempt to create a new world." --Adrián Ferrero, National University of La Plata About the Author Angélica Gorodischer is the Argentine author of seventeen novels and several story collections. Gorodischer's literary awards include the Gilgamesh Prize; the Platinum Konex; the Dignity Award from the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights; the Silvina Bullrich Award from the Argentina Writers' Society; and the Esteban Echeverría Award from Gente de Letras, Argentina. Her work has previously been translated into English by Ursula K. Le Guin, Sue Burke, and Amalia Gladhart.Amalia Gladhart is a professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. I dreamt I was in heaven. Not Heaven, paradise of fortunate souls. In the heavens, that sky blue—what? elytron?—that officially covers all of us, covers religions that promise eternal happiness as much as it does wretched poems, clumsily rhymed. In the heavens, up there above where, a poor imitation, a mirror of our own, there’s another city. Standing on dense clouds, hard as bitumen, compact, immobile as stone angels, clouds sprawled like sacks of corn, I felt no fear that I might fall and fall and smash against the ground. I think it fair to say I felt nothing. Indifference, maybe; or something still more disagreeable, like boredom. Poor heavens, to harbor this ill-humored man, even if it was but to show him the other side of the clouds, just for a moment. So much, so little, so miserly—I thought I should give something in exchange, that I was expected to give something, but what? What more can I give after giving what I gave, what they tore from me? I only know how to write, but words are little if it’s payment—although it could also be a debt—if it’s a matter of payment, of price. Or maybe I could sing, recount in a reverse accounting all the anguish and we’re back to the matter of the words. Poor heavens. Lying on a high bed of clouds, I looked around and saw the city. Not the city down below, the city in the clouds. It was a city—it could have been any of them, or none, it made no difference; a city, yes, that’s what it was, one of the largest. It was enormous, flooded with skyscrapers as if that were a way to defend it, to make it appear (or even be) invulnerable, and it was. I turned on my side so as to see it better and then I saw it the way it had to be seen: static, deserted, all white, the buildings perforated by tiny windows. I didn’t see gardens, or monuments or balconies or inhabitants or libraries or streets or bars or schools; only the city, the buildi

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories, and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. Kalpa Imperial is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Gorodischer and Le Guin are a well-matched, sly and delightful team of magician-storytellers. Rarely have author and translator been such an effortless pairing. Kalpa Imperial is a powerful introduction to the writing of Ang‚lica Gorodischer, a novel that will enthrall readers already familiar with the worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Le Guin,Ursula K.

Fantasy

IBooks

Small Beer Press is proud to present Kalpa Imperial, the history of an imaginary empire, written by Angelica Gorodischer, a major South American fantasist and translated by Ursula K. Le Guin, one of North America's most dazzling and fearless writers.

KALPA IMPERIAL:THE GREATEST EM

Ibooks, Inc.

Locus Recommended Reading Prodigies explores the story of the poet Novalis's birthplace in the German town of Weissenfels after it is converted into a boarding house. Moving, subtle, and full of wit, irony, and dreams, this novel fills the house with the women who lived there throughout the nineteenth century, and across the flow of history constructs the secret drama of their destinies. Praise for Prodigies: "I am so in love with this book I could explode! I want to hug it and pet it and call it George. I knew it would be good, because Small Beer Press publishes the best, but I had no idea how just enchanted I would be with this delightful novel of unusual tenants at a boarding house in the nineteenth century. This book scratched my Muriel Spark/Barbara Comyns itches, with an extra side of the unusual. Originally published in 1994, this is Argentinian writer Gorodischer’s third novel to be translated into English. I will definitely be reading the first two now!” Liberty Hardy, Book Riot Put strangers around a common table and you have possibilities, in life and in literature. Thus the driving premise of The Magic Mountain, and thus Argentine novelist Gorodischer’s slender book. . . . Gorodischer writes a poetic, vigorous prose. Her story, dreamlike and start-and-stop, takes effort, for though brief, it is denseand well worth the trouble.” Kirkus Reviews "Because of Prodigies' unusual style, it requires great care and thoughtfulness to read. It cannot be rushed through or casually scanned. An impatient reader will abandon this book long before its rich rewards can be reaped. The right audience will have a willingness to savor, to double-back over sentences, to bob along to wherever the author and characters wish to take you. If you are ready for the experience of Prodigies, it is definitely ready for you." Carmen Maria Machado, NPR "Gorodischer's rhythmic and transparent prose reveals the violence underlying bourgeois respectability. Prodigies is both incisive and incantatory."Sofia Samatar, author of A Stranger in Olondria "Prodigies, which she considers to be her best novel . . . takes place in Germany in the home of the poet Novalis after his death, and is a humorous and ironic portrayal of the women who passed through that home."Women and Power in Argentinean Literature Angélica Gorodischer was born in Buenos Aires in 1928 and has lived in Rosario since 1936. She has published many novels and short story collections including Kalpa Imperial, Mango Juice, and Trafalgar, as well as a memoir, History of My Mother. Her work has been translated into many languages and her translators include Ursula K. Le Guin and Alberto Manguel. With certain self-satisfaction she claims she has never written plays or poems, not even at sixteen when everybody writes poems, especially on unrequited love. She received two Fulbright awards as well as many literary awards around the world, including a 2014 Konex Special Mention Award.

Prodigies: a novel

Small Beer Press

Im Schatten des Jaguars

Golkonda Verlag

Kalpa Imperial

Ediciones Gigamesh

En esta novela, los jaguares mueren una y otra vez; la estirpe deja sin embargo su marca en el hombre que recorre el camino desde el cielo hasta el espejo en el que va a contemplar su propia muerte; en la mujer que entrevé un jardín de oroen la noche; en la multitud que se mueve en un país increíble recorrido por los grandes ríos y por los vientos que traen tormenta. A la sombra de los jaguares se mueven los personajes, mientras desgranan los destinos que han entrevisto en sueños. Obra que revela a Gorodischer en el punto máximo de su talento de escritora. La autora ha publicado una vasta obra narrativa, mereciendo, entre otros los premios Konex de platino, Más Allá, Esteban Echeverría y Dignidad (APDH).

Tumba de Jaguares (Emece Cruz del Sur) (Spanish Edition)

Emecé Editores

Kalpa imperial reúne once relatos, once fragmentos de la historia del Imperio Más Vasto que Nunca Existió. Por el narrador sabemos que el Imperio fue destruido y reconstruido infinidad de veces y que su historia vuelve a empezar con cada nueva dinastía de emperadores y emperatrices. El escenario es siempre el mismo: el montañoso norte, el sur selvático y las ciudades capitales. Las historias son múltiples y diversas. Como la de Bib, el chico esmirriado que pretende refundar el Imperio e inventar un nuevo orden; la del último príncipe de la dinastía de los Orioles y su extraña muerte; la de la huérfana que asciende desde los bajos fondos hasta el trono; la del Emperador Cuarto en las dinastía de los Kiautonor, que manda a construir una ciudad en honor de su amante. Angélica Gorodischer crea un universo ficcional portentoso, absolutamente propio, donde la distopía se cruza con el realismo, la novela con el cuento, la metáfora sobre el poder con el pequeño drama humano. Publicado por primera vez en 1983, Kalpa imperial marcó un hito en la obra de esta gran autora argentina y la convirtió en una referente ineludible de la ciencia ficción universal.

KALPA IMPERIAL

Emecé

Puede ser la cocina el ámbito adecuado para una feminista? Virginia Haurie, Elvira Ibargüen, Hilda Rais, Ana Sampaolesiy Gorodischer dan la respuesta a ese interrogante, con recetas extrañas o célebres y relatos donde predominan el humor y la ironía. Ilustraciones: Roberto Fontanarrosa.

Locas Por LA Cocina/Crazy People by the Kitchen (Spanish Edition)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Sampaolesi, Ana

Regional & International

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Jaguars' Tomb

Jaguars' Tomb

Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

KALPA IMPERIAL:THE GREATEST EM

Prodigies: a novel

Im Schatten des Jaguars

Kalpa Imperial

Tumba de Jaguares (Emece Cruz del Sur) (Spanish Edition)

KALPA IMPERIAL

Locas Por LA Cocina/Crazy People by the Kitchen (Spanish Edition)