Most Popular Books by Ilan Stavans

La historia de cómo García Márquez se convirtió en uno de los escritores más importantes de la historia.

Después de muchos años de estudio y dedicación, Ilan Stavans nos entrega una obra monumental que comprende sus reflexiones, investigaciones y conclusiones sobre el ser latino en el ámbito anglosajón a partir del estudio acabado del arte hispánico. Específicamente, se refiere al ser norteamericano y su influencia en el resto del continente americano. Ubicado geográficamente desde el Río Grande irá analizando los diversos grupos étnicos y sus formas de actuar; con su experiencia irá relatando quiénes son los hispanos, cuáles son las diferencias con los grupos que emigraron de Europa y de otras minorías; aquellos que conviven en el terreno norteamericano. Es un libro que da cuenta de una experiencia vivencial compartida entre dos culturas, más que un tratado científico. Un libro que plantea referencias históricas y literarias en el quehacer contemporáneo.

This insightful compilation offers interdisciplinary views on soccer among Latinos. In contrast with its relative lack of popularity in the United States, elsewhere, professional soccer is a hugely popular sport whose key players rival movie stars in popularity and influence. For many Latinos, especially those who emigrated to the United States, it is the game of choice. While Latino players are still not a major force in U.S. soccer, Latino fans certainly are, comprising, by one estimate, 45 percent of Major League Soccer attendees. Seeking to explain the allure and the influence of soccer among Latinos, particularly those living in the United States, Fútbol offers a collection of essays that treat the game from a wide variety of perspectives. These essays—including reminiscences and impressionistic assessments—touch on topics as diverse as politics, religion, sociology, marketing, athletics, and gender relations as they attempt to contextualize soccer in the Latino community.

En tiempos de las redes sociales la conversación es un arte en decadencia. Se trata de una pérdida significativa. Para Borges, la cultura se originó gracias a «unos cuantos griegos conversadores». Quien dialoga se sirve de la inteligencia en forma libre y gratuita; aplaza las certezas, las opiniones definitivas, la voluntad de tener razón, y descubre con asombro ideas propias. A contrapelo de la celeridad contemporánea, Stavans y Villoro se han servido de internet para dialogar dilatadamente, como lo hubieran hecho en un café, explorando su pasión común por la literatura y las circunstancias en que ocurre. Nacido en México, Stavans vive en Estados Unidos, donde escribe en español, inglés y espanglish. Por su parte, Villoro entiende los viajes como una oportunidad de volver a México. Las diferencias de formación y el hecho de que los autores se hubiesen frecuentado poco, permitieron que el intercambio fuera un sorprendente proceso de conocimiento mutuo. El ojo en la nuca es una conversación en tono suelto, atrevido, que incluye las hipótesis, las confesiones, los desahogos, las bromas, las anécdotas y las interpretaciones que no siempre llegan a la versión definitiva de los textos pero los sustentan en secreto. En este singular y fascinante intercambio de perspectivas, el ojo sólo podía estar en la nuca.

Trata de questões como linguagem e identidade, cultura e globalização. Explora o tema da cultura hispano-americana e o idioma "spanglish", para demonstrar como a população latin tornou-se um influência na literatura, artes, música e política dos Estados Unidos.

A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile and endlessly adaptable. Flaubert was inspired to turn Emma Bovary into “a knight in skirts.” Freud studied Quixote’s psyche. Mark Twain was fascinated by it, as were Kafka, Picasso, Nabokov, Borges, and Orson Welles. The novel has spawned ballets and operas, poems and plays, movies and video games, and even shapes the identities of entire nations. Spain uses it as a sort of constitution and travel guide; and the Americas were conquered, then sought their independence, with the knight as a role model. In Quixote, Ilan Stavans, one of today’s preeminent cultural commentators, explores these many manifestations. Training his eye on the tumultuous struggle between logic and dreams, he reveals the ways in which a work of literature is a living thing that influences and is influenced by the world around it.

Pairs riddles in English and Spanish with a set of cards for the Mexican board game known as "Loterâia" designed by a contemporary Mexican American artist.

"The Hispanic Malcolm X. Writer. Activist. Civil rights attorney. Contemporary of Hunter S. Thompson''s. Man prone to excesses. Man of vision. All describe Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. A leading figure in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, he seemed to be everywhere and have a profound influence on everyone in El Movimiento. In 1974, after a last phone call to his son, Acosta disappeared in the Mexican state of Mazatlan." "Bandido reconstructs - even reinvents - the man behind the myth. Part biographical appraisal, part reflection on the legacy of the civil rights era, Bandido is an opportunity to understand the challenges and pitfalls Latinos face in finding a place of their own in America." --Book Jacket.

En esta obra Il n Stavans aborda, de manera innovadora, la antiqu sima discusi n de la intertextualidad de las obras literarias. Usando ejemplos correctos, Stavans nos muestra que todo libro es una reinterpretaci n de otros. de este modo, una creaci n escrita se convierte en un peque o universo donde convive una multiplicidad de mundos narrados.

In its four volumes, 650 entries, 2000 pages and 1.2 million words, Encyclopedia Latina explores every aspect of Latino life in America from a myriad of perspectives, spanning the arts, media, cuisine, government and politics, science and technology, business, health, and sports, among others. While the collection represents an important cultural point of reference and source of pride for Latino youth, it will also serve the interests of an increasingly diverse American population who can all relate to the themes and stories included in this resource.

Producto de muchos aos de lectura, apreciacin y asimilacin del arte hispnico, este excelente volumen rene las disquisiciones del autor en torno a la idiosincrasia latina en el mbito anglosajn, particularmente estadunidense, y sus tentculos a lo largo y ancho de todas las Amricas. Stavans incluye una cronologa de hechos histricos y de creacin de obras importantes de arte y la literatura latinas al norte del ro Bravo, adems, de una bibliografa y una filmografa completas sobre el tema.

"At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over three hundred wounded. Originally published amid widespread controversy, Once@9:53am: Terror en Buenos Aires imagines the two hours before the attack through the popular format of the fotonovela. At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, a Jewish community center in the bustling commercial neighborhood of Once, Buenos Aires. The explosion left eighty-five people dead and over three hundred wounded. Originally published amid widespread controversy, Once@9:53am: Terror en Buenos Aires imagines the two hours before the attack through the popular format of the fotonovela. Part documentary, part fiction, this vivid retelling of Argentina''s deadliest bombing depicts a vibrant, complex urban community in the hours before its identity was forever changed. This expanded English edition includes a new essay by Ilan Stavans detailing the aftermath of the attack and the faulty investigations that have yet to yield any arrests or reach resolution."--Provided by publisher.

Once 9:53 is set in Buenos Aires'' historically Jewish Once neighborhood, in the hours leading up to the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center building.

A critical dialogue focused on intellectual and comedic approaches to humor from the wildly inventive minds of Ilan Stavans and Frederick Luis Aldama.

"After a chance meeting with a shaman in Colombia, Ilan Stavans, the highly regarded literary scholar, found himself in the Amazon rainforest. He had reluctantly agreed to participate in a religious ceremony that involved taking the hallucinogen ayahuasca. Even though he considered himself a skeptic and a rational intellectual, as someone whose worldview was defined by his education and his heritage as a Mexican Jew, Stavans found that the ritual pushed him to reconsider many of his basic understandings, including his perceptions of indigenous cultures in Latin America, as well as his career as teacher, thinker, and artist. This one-act play is delivered in the form of a lecture that mimics the author''s startling spiritual journey. The book includes twenty-five bold images, in color and black and white, which capture the author''s performance of the play: --

A bilingual collection of poems, stories, and other writings which celebrates diversity among Latinos.