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Alvaro Enrigue

American Author

Born: Aug 6, 1969

Book Live Man People Think Writing

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world. Alvaro Enrigue

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History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them. Alvaro Enrigue

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Walter Benjamin used to think that languages expand their register thanks to translation, because translation forces ways of using words and structures that were alien to the original speaker of the target language. Alvaro Enrigue

Words Language Alien Thanks Translation Think Ways Structures Forces Because Were Target Expand Register Speaker Used Languages Original Using

Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a writer: Heberto Padilla. In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to 'confess' at the Cuban writers' union to the charges of 'subversive activities.' Alvaro Enrigue

'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance. Alvaro Enrigue

Sad Character Book Writing First Differences Extremely About Parrot Glance Clear Between Narrator Than Author Personal Essay Gradually Which Transformed Less Appear Novel Appears

In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'. Alvaro Enrigue

Key Free Jazz Interpretation Air Boom City John Composed Brought Economic Clear Read Mexican Mexico Mexico City Where Manhattan Transfer Modernization Novel Growth Portrait

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