Product Description: This classic in film theory, presents a systematic study of the techniques of the film medium and of their potential uses for creating formal structures in individual films such as Dovzhenko's Earth, Antonioni's La Notte, Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Renoir's Nana, and Godard's Pierrot le Fou...read more

Product Description: In Makbara, Juan Goytisolo―widely considered Spain’s greatest living writer―again dazzles the reader with his energetic, stylistic prose, which he himself compares to a snake: cunning, sly, sinuous. But the themes in Makbara are perhaps more universal than in his earlier works...read more

Product Description: Peruvian author Ricardo Palma (1838-1919) was one of the most popular and imitated writers in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As head of the National Library in Lima, Palma had access to a rich source of historical books and manuscripts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: 1997

Product Description: New title from the author of A Brief Life and The Shipyard, recognised as the Grahm Greene of Uruguay

Product Description: Blanco the magician is famous throughout Europe for his telepathic powers. Undermined by a conspiracy and exposed to the world as a charlatan, Blanco is forced to flee to Argentina, where he takes up with the voluptuous Gina. This book received Spain's Nadal Prize for fiction in 1988...read more

'Translation of Rasero (1993) received the Pegasus Prize for Literature. Set in 18th-century Europe, Rebolledo's ambitious first novel tells of a young Spaniard in search of wisdom who travels to Paris and experiences the Enlightenment, with all its contradictions'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Explores the politics, desires, philosophy, and science of eighteenth century Paris through the life and sexually triggered prophecies of Fausto Rasero, a young Spanish nobleman who comes to know every important figure of his time (view table of contents)

Product Description: Three modern Maria's weave tales, poems and meditations about modern women's lives.

Product Description: During a stifling Argentinian summer, a horse-killer is on the loose. Cat Garay, heir to a once-prosperous, now dilapidated family, and his lover Elisa protect a horse from certain mutilation and death. An intense sexual affair and a desultory hunt for the killer are played out on the banks of the Parana river in an atmosphere of political anxiety and disintegration...read more

The narrator, who, while confined to a hospital bed, is persecuted by the medical profession, identifies with St. John of the Cross, who, 400 years earlier, fused Christian, Jewish, and Muslim beliefs together in his writings