The Censors: A Bilingual Selection of Stories

by Luisa Valenzuela, Hortense Carpentier (Translator), J. Jorge Castillo (Translator), Helen Lane (Translator), Christopher Leland (Translator)

Overview

The Censors is the only bilingual collection of fiction by Luisa Valenzuela, one of Latin America's best known and most widely translated authors. This selection of stories from Clara, Strange Things Happen Here, and Open Door, which delves into the personal and political realities under authoritarian rule, gives a rich representation of her literary talent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780915306121
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	07/01/1995
Edition description:	Bilingual Edition (English and Spanish)
Pages:	255
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

LUISA VALENZUELA is a post-"Boom" novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in Argentina. She has written for newspapers, magazines, and radio in her native Argentina, and was a Resident Writer at the Center for Interamerican Relations at New York and Columbia University for 10 years. 
 

Table of Contents

The Censors/Los censores

Los mejor calzados
The Best Shod

El custodio blancanieves
The Snow White Watchman

Cronicas de pueblorrojo
Redtown Chronicles

La historia de Papito
Papito's Story

One Siren or Another/Unas y otras sirenas

Carnival campero
Country Carnival

El fontanero azul
The Blue Water Man

Unas y otras sirenas
One Siren or Another

Proceso a la virgen
Trial of the Virgin

Los menestreles
The Minstrels

El hijo de Kermaria
The Son of Kermaria

La puerta
The Door

Vision de reojo
Vision Out of the Corner of One Eye

Pavada de suicidio
All About Suicide

The Attainment of Knowledge/Para alcanzar el conocimiento

Para alcanzar el conocimiento
The Attiainment of Knowledge

Leyenda de la criatura autosuficiente
Legend of the Self Sufficient Child

Pantera ocular
Cat's Eye

Donde viven las aguilas
Up Among the Eagles

The Place of its Quietude/El lugar de su quietud

El lugar de su quietud
The Place of its Quietude

What People are Saying About This

Gregory Rabassa

Valenzuela's are the best stories to come out of Latin America in some time. Her style is original, her dialogue superb.

Editorial Reviews

"Luisa Valenzuela's affecting short stories—parables, really—are cryptic and poetic. Like many Latin American writers, she produces work that verges on the surreal." —New York Times Book Review


"[She is] the heiress of Latin American literature. She wears an opulent, baroque crown, but her feet are bare." —Carlos Fuentes


"Luisa Valenzuela explores the terrain where love and violence, erotic pleasure and death, exist perilously close to each other . . . Valenzuela plays with words, turns them inside out, weaves them into sensuous webs." —Voice Literary Supplement

From the Publisher

Luisa Valenzuela's affecting short stories—parables, really—are cryptic and poetic. Like many Latin American writers, she produces work that verges on the surreal.

New York Times Book Review

Luisa Valenzuela explores the terrain where love and violence, erotic pleasure and death, exist perilously close to each other.…Valenzuela plays with words, turns them inside out, weaves them into sensuous webs.

Voice Literary Supplement