Spanish short stories Cuentos Hispánicos
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Spanish short stories = Cuentos Hispánicos
（Penguin books）（Penguin parallel text）
Penguin, 1966-
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Cuentos hispánicos
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Description and Table of Contents
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1 ISBN 9780140025002
Description
Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Camilo Jose Cela have been chosen for their readability and literary merit. Seven are from Spanish America, only one from Spain, an unsurprising ratio considering there are no less than nineteen Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas, and that the short story is an extremely popular form among authors there. This selection also, therefore, gives the reader an insight into the differences between the literary cultures.
Printed approximately in order of difficulty, the stories are accompanied by parallel English translations and notes on the text.
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2 ISBN 9780140033786
Description
This second volume of short stories contains more diverse and lively writing from the Spanish-speaking world. Again much of it is from Latin America, Carlos Fuentes being Mexican, Norberto Fuentes Cuban, and the other writers having their roots in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia and the Argentine. Only Ana Maria Matute is a native of Spain.
This highly entertaining selection of stories, together with a chapter from Mario Vargas Llosa's novel 'Conversation in the Cathedral', explores stylistic contrasts and gives an insight into the cultural and social milieu of the Spanish-speaking world. With notes on unusual Spanish words and phrases, it will be of great value to English students of the language as well as a helpful companion to Spanish-speaking students of English.
Table of Contents
- The man who repented, Ana Maria Matute
- after the procession, Jorge Edwards
- Amalia, Mario Vargas Llosa
- the thunderbox, Jorge Onetti
- the cost of living, Carlos Fuentes
- Capitan Descalzo, Norberto Fuentes
- share and share alike, Norberto Fuentes
- Balthazar's marvellous afternoon, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- the disued door, Julio Cortazar.
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