" Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather’s ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius’s father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children’s lives like an ephemeral shooting star. De ..."
"Julius, un nino inteligente y bien tratado por la fortuna, es el hilo conductor de este retrato de un sector feliz y despreocupado de la oligarquia limena, que refleja el mundo de la oligarquia de otras muchas ciudades. El libro fue elegido como la mejor novela peruana de todos los tiempos tras una encuesta entre ochenta escritores y criticos peruanos. / Julius is an intelligent boy who has been favoured by fortune; he is what thr ..."
"«El hombre que hablaba de Octavia de Cadiz» es la segunda parte del diptico «Cuaderno de navegacion en un sillon Voltaire», cuya primera parte es «La vida exagerada de Martin Romana», publicada en esta misma coleccion. Si la primera parte (el cuaderno azul) terminaba en accion desquiciada, la segunda (el cuaderno rojo) retoma y desarrolla una idea propuesta en la primera parte del diptico, donde Martin Romana habia intuido la aparicion ..."
"Bajo el influjo de Hemingway, Martin Romaña deja el Peru rumbo a Paris, pero alli nada es como en los libros del norteamericano. Martin se topa con un mundo plagado de porteras y perros perversos, se casa con una militante de extrema izquierda e intenta, sin demasiada suerte, convertirse en un revolucionario modelico, mientras con humor va escribiendo su novela sobre los latinoamericanos que sobreviven en una Ciudad Luz a la que se le h ..."
"menos metafórica, al ver su rostro reflejado en la cigarrera que le regaló Baby
Schiaffino por su matrimonio, el momento definitivo de su renuncia y fracaso; y,
finalmente, el protagonista de «La muerte más bella del 68», al recordar las
películas interpretadas por Richard Widmark y entrar a una sala de proyección (
Cf. p. 90). ... Los personajes — sin marca del narrador — se entregan a unas
ensoñaciones que les permiten vivir lo qu ..."
El hilo del habla(1st Edition) La narrativa de AlfredoBryceEchenique (Colección del Centro de Estudios Literarios) (Spanish Edition) by JulioOrtega Paperback, 147 Pages, Published 1994 by Universidad De Guadalajara ISBN-13: 978-968-895-413-3, ISBN: 968-895-413-6
"Como luz de río / Like River Light brings together two bilingual poetry collections by one of the most accomplished trans-border poets in America, Juan Armando Rojas Joo. Light / Luz (2013), and Vertebral River / Río vertebral (2009, 2002), masterfully translated by Jennifer Rathbun, this volume also includes a commentary by Julio Ortega. En la poesía de Juan Armando Rojas Joo el desierto es cicatriz y también estuario. Dos voces lo no ..."
"2. Julio Roca and Camilo Calderón, "García Márquez lo vió morir," Al Día (Bogotá
), no. 1, April 28, 1981, pp. 52-60, 108. 3. Ibid., p. 108. 4. Quoted by Jesús
Ceberio, "Gabriel García Márquez: 1 Crónica de una muerte anunciada es mi
mejor novela,'" El País (Madrid), Friday, May 1, 1981, p. 29. 5. Gabriel García
Márquez, "El cuento del cuento," El País (Madrid), August 26, 1981, pp. 7—8;
September 2, 1981, 9—10. The quotation is fro ..."
"Designed for advanced-level Spanish students, this Latin American literature survey includes a collection of essays, timelines, and biographies from pre-Hispanic to contemporary authors."
Poetics of Change The New Spanish-American Narrative by JulioOrtega 200 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-0-292-75496-6, ISBN: 0-292-75496-5
"You told me where this was and that was, and here I am in a dead village,
looking for somebody who doesn't even exist.” In Comala ... In this novel the
conquest of the patriarchal paradise is also the loss of that paradise; the son will
die, merging with the place that takes his life and also his death, because here
the world is another world. This novel ... Giving the impression of being somehow
more real than mere ghosts or appar ..."
"Nueva York, Miami, y una profunda pasión por la literatura y el periodismo se dan la mano en este libro de José Carvajal. Por primera vez un autor de la diáspora se atreve a poner el dedo en la llaga y analiza una parte esencial del quehacer cultural de los dominicanos en el alto Manhattan."
"A collection of evocative stories, poems, and essays, this compendium combines subtle intellect with charming playfulness to present a fresh perspective on such universal themes as language, duality, and the origins of creativity. Evocative and enriching, these pieces—through topics such as a library map of time and a poet who never managed to write a word—offer a thoughtful and witty take on the Hispanic cultural experience of middle-c ..."
Transatlantic Translations Dialogues in Latin American Literature by JulioOrtega Published 2006 by Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-0-00-012088-5, ISBN: 0-00-012088-X
"Conceived of as the 'New World', Latin America represented a new beginning for its discoverers, yet, in fact, the colonials were only continuing their search for what they knew all along they wanted to find: fertile land with an abundance of spices, precious metals and labour. This idea of Latin America's invention has long been a preoccupation of intellectuals and historians, leading to the dominant postcolonial interpretation of the n ..."
"This book has the huge merit of introducing a wealth of talented writers unknown in English; well over a third of the stories appear in English for the first time . . . by bombarding the reader with unfamiliar names speaking in a babel of ..."
Guia del Nuevo Siglo Literatura (Spanish Edition) by JulioOrtega Paperback, 438 Pages, Published 1998 by Universidad De Puerto Rico ISBN-13: 978-0-8477-0280-0, ISBN: 0-8477-0280-4
"... Epitafio del Siglo XX 142 Tulio Mora, Albures 145 Alejandro Krawietz, Insulata
149 Horacio Costa, The Way to be 158 ... 199 Pedro Granados, Cartagena de
Indias 202 Javier Marías, Lo que no sucede y sucede 204 Edgardo Rodríguez ..."
Ayacucho, Goodbye Moscow's Gold : Two Novellas on Peruvian Politics and Violence (Series Discoveries) (Spanish Edition) by JulioOrtega, Edith Grossman, Alita Kelley Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1994 by Latin American Literary Review Press ISBN-13: 978-0-935480-66-5, ISBN: 0-935480-66-8
"In the first of two allegorical novellas, Peruvian peasant leader Alfonso Cánepa is murdered and mutilated by the police, but feeling unsatisfied with his death, the dead man sets out to recover his missing bones and seek Christian burial. During the pilgrimage from his mountain village to the capital he relates an epic satire of a Peru torn apart by a decade of terrorism and government repression. Stuck between life and death, the inco ..."