TrEHLUS-21
Translations in English of Hispanic Literature in the 21st-Century US
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Translations
Title: The House of the Spirits
Translator(s): Magda Bogin
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: La casa de los espíritus
Publisher: Dial Press
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 433 pp.
ISBN: 0553383809
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Epic fiction, Domestic ficiton, Romans épiques
Title: The House of the Spirits
Translator(s): Magda Bogin
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: La casa de los espíritus
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Number of pages: 488 pp.
ISBN: 1400043182
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a novel set in an unnamed Latin American country and describes the struggles, passions, and secrets of the Trueba family that spans three generations.
Literary Genre: Historical fiction, Epic fiction, Domestic ficiton, Romans épiques
Title: The House of Ulysses
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Julián RíosOriginal work: Casa Ulises
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 265 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785978
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Julián Ríos's latest comic extravaganza is at once a serious literary excavation and a lecture as delivered by Groucho Marx on the subject of that great (and often imposing) cornerstone of world literature: James… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Julián Ríos ; translated by Nick Caistor.
Literary Genre: Humorous fiction, Fiction
Translator(s): Audrey Harris, Matthew Gleeson
Author: Varios/MultipleOriginal work: Varias/Multiple
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 122 pp.
ISBN: 9780811228213
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) With acute psychological insight, Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire, paranoia, insomnia, and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession, who makes nightmares come to life through the everyday: loneliness… read more
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction -- translations into english
Title: The Hunts
Translator(s): Renata Treitel
Author: Amelia BiagioniOriginal work: Las cacerías
Publisher: Xenos Books
City: Riverside, CA
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 135 pp.
ISBN: 1879378442
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A cycle of poems in free verse that develops a cosmic vision of hunting and the hunter. The hunter becomes the hunted, the animal, the poet, finally God, the Great Hunter of souls. Preface by translator, Bilingual text, Notes… read more
Title: The Iliac Crest
Translator(s): Sarah Booker
Author: Cristina Rivera GarzaOriginal work: La cresta de Ilión
Publisher: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2017
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 136 pp.
ISBN: 9781558614352
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) On a dark and stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator's house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host's gender and identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed… read more
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Fiction
Title: The Illogic of Kassel
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Enrique Vila-MatasOriginal work: Kassel no invita a la lógica
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2015
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221498
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary… read more
Additional Information: Excerpt
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Exhibition, Exhibition catalogs, Fiction, Romans, Catalogues d'exposition
Title: The Illogic of Kassel
Translator(s): Anne McLean, Anna Milsom
Author: Enrique Vila-MatasOriginal work: Kassel no invita a la lógica
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2014
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 220 pp.
ISBN: 9780811221498
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the legendary… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Exhibition, Exhibition catalogs, Fiction, Romans, Catalogues d'exposition
Translator(s): Robert M. Fedorchek
Author: Juan ValeraOriginal work: Ilusiones del doctor Faustino
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
City: Washington, D.C.
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 309 pp.
ISBN: 9780813218335
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Don Faustino Lopez de Mendoza, scion of an illustrious but impoverished family of the highest nobility, believes himself destined for great accomplishments in the literary world, sees himself as a poet of the first rank, and… read more
Literary Genre: Fiction
Title: The Impostor : a True Story
Translator(s): Frank Wynne
Author: Javier CercasOriginal work: El impostor
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2018
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 364 pp.
ISBN: 9781524732813
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Novel about Enric Marco, a Spanish man who claimed to have been a prisoner in Nazi German concentration camps, until historian Benito Bermejo found out that his story was not true.
Literary Genre: Biographical fiction, Fiction, Novels, Spanish fiction
Title: The Infatuations
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Javier MaríasOriginal work: Enamoramientos
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 337 pp.
ISBN: 9780307960726
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Breakfasting daily at a Madrid café where she observes fellow patrons, María Dolz offers condolences to a widow whose husband has been shockingly murdered, an act that leads to a new relationship and disturbing insights into the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Javier Marías ; translation by Margaret Jull Costa.
Literary Genre: Psychological fiction, Spanish fiction -- 21st century -- translations into english, Novels, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Romans
Title: The Infinite Plan
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: El plan infinito
Publisher: HarperPerennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2004
Number of pages: 382 pp.
ISBN: 9780060924980
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Isabel Allende’s first novel to be set in the United States and to portray American characters, The Infinite Plan is a vivid tale of one man’s search for love, and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of… read more
Title: The Infinite Plan
Translator(s): Margaret Sayers Peden
Author: Isabel AllendeOriginal work: El plan infinito
Publisher: Perennial
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2002
Number of pages: 382 pp.
ISBN: 9780060924980
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of Gregory Reeves's journey from childhood to middle age and long-sought peace and happiness. Gregory's journey is marked by the contending philosophies of his mother's Bahai faith; his father's personally revealed,… read more
Title: The Informers
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel VásquezOriginal work: Los informantes
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 1594488789
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who escaped to… read more
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans
Title: The Informers
Translator(s): Anne McLean
Author: Juan Gabriel VásquezOriginal work: Los informantes
Publisher: Riverhead Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2008
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 351 pp.
ISBN: 9781594488788
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel is devastated. Cataloguing the life of longtime family friend Sara Guterman, a Jewish German immigrant who… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Literary Genre: Fictional work, Fiction, History, Historical fiction, Romans
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Carlos RojasPublisher: Yale University Press
City: New Haven
Year of Publication: 2013
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1203 pp.
ISBN: 9780300195286
Summary/Reviews: (¿Sin fuente?) In Carlos Rojas's imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Rojas ; translated by Edith Grossman.
Literary Genre: Fiction, General info: national bibliography no: gbc3a4358 other format available: print version:; rojas, carlos, 1928-; ingenioso hidalgo y poeta federico garcía lorca asciende a los, Infiernos english; ingenious gentleman and poet federico garcía lorca ascends to hell; new haven : yale university press, ©2013
Original work: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York, N.Y.
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 1023 pp.
ISBN: 0140448047
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalry romances that he determines to turn knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; translated by John Rutherford ; with an introduction by Roberto González Echevarría.
Literary Genre: Spanish fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Adventure fiction
Title: The Initials of the Earth
Translator(s): Kathleen Ross
Author: Jesús DíazOriginal work: Las iniciales de la tierra
Publisher: Duke University Press
City: Durham, NC
Year of Publication: 2006
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 430 pp.
ISBN: 0822338297
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Many critics consider The Initials of the Earth to be the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution and the finest work by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jess Daz. Born in Havana in 1941, Daz was a witness to the Revolution… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, History, Political fiction, Historical fiction, Romans
Title: The Insatiable Spider Man
Translator(s): John King
Author: Pedro Juan GutiérrezOriginal work: El insaciable hombre araña
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 163 pp.
ISBN: 9780786716654
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pedro Juan's adventures with various women feature a kind of modulated macho: he's not particularly interested in any of them other than physically, especially wife Julia, but he's very good at articulating his boredom and their… read more
Title: The Insufferable Gaucho
Translator(s): Chris Andrews
Author: Roberto BolañoOriginal work: El gaucho insufrible
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 164 pp.
ISBN: 9780811220538
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Contains five short stories and two essays by Chilean author Roberto Bolańo.
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