The World's Literature in Europe discussion

José Maria Arguedas -- Yawar Fiesta and The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below: Critical Edition -- Peru

Letters of a Peruvian Woman by Françoise de Graffigny

Making Waves: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa. If we choose this book, it will be the first compilation of essays we're reading!

that could be really interesting...i feel like i need to learn a lot about modern Peru in order to really appreciate his novels. i've only read Death in the Andes. I'm looking forward to "Bad Girl."

wow...i just read the book page for "Making Waves." This is really interesting:

"In more recent articles, he considers the terrorism of Peru's Shining Path and the presidency of Alberto Fujimori - and the failures of the English public-school system, which made his son into a Rastafarian."

I've put "Death in the Andes" in my to-read list even though Vargas Llosa's technique in this novel tends to confound readers. I liked Marieke's review of it.

"The Bad Girl" is a very amusing, surprise-filled novel, and Vargas Llosa a genius of a storyteller, always stretching the reader's imagination to the borders of fantasy. Especially good is his transformations of a single girl throughout the story.

Grande Sertão: Veredas/The Devil to Pay in the Backlands by João Guimarães Rosa -- Brazil

and

Sagarana

Writers from Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking countries, having been awarded the Camões Prize:

Rubem Fonseca , e.g., The Taker And Other Stories

...cont'd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%C3%B...

BRAZIL:

Rheda.

First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix

Mindlin

Barbecued Husbands: And Other Stories From The Amazon

Melo

Black waltz

Garcia-Roza.

December heat
Southwesterly wind
A window in Copacabana
The silence of the rain

Veríssimo.

Borges and the eternal orangutans
The club of angels

Sarney

Master of the sea

Coelho

Eleven minutes:a novel
Warrior of the light:a manual
The Zahir

Veloso

Tropical truth: a story of music and revolution in Brazil

source: "Translations from the Portuguese" Current Tables of Contents http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/62-literat...

PERU:

Since Alfredo Bryce Echenique's A World for Julius: A Novel is a favorite, it seemed worthwhile to locate two more of the author's translated books

Tarzan's Tonsillitis: A Novel -- an epistolary novel

Huerto Cerrado by Alfredo Bryce Echenique -- short stories

BRAZIL in 1920s-30s: The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles

Brazil is an adventurous, historical epic from the introduction of Portuguese settlers into the mid-nineteen-hundreds. The homesite of the novel is http://erroluys.com/brazilpage1.htm .