klasyki: Latin American Boom

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The Latin American Boom (Spanish: Boom latinoamericano) was a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s when the work of a group of relatively young Latin American novelists became widely circulated in Europe and throughout the world. The Boom is most closely associated with Julio Cortázar of Argentina, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru, and Gabriel García Márquez of Colombia. Influenced by European and North American Modernism, but also by the Latin American Vanguardia movement, these writers challenged the established conventions of Latin American literature. Their work is experimental and, owing to the political climate of the Latin America of the 1960s, also very polit…

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Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (Spanish pronunciation: [karpanˈtje], French pronunciation: [kaʁpɑ̃tje]; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life. He traveled extensively, particularly in France, and to South America and Mexico, where he met prominent members of the Latin American cultural and artistic community. Carpentier took a keen interest in Latin American politics and often align…

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Transnational readings in the Trumpocene: Kim Stanley Robinson's <i>New York 2140</i> and Chris Beckett's <i>America City</i>.. This article discusses two climate fiction novels-one British, one American-that were written in the runup to two major political events on either side of the Atlantic in 2016-the Brexit referendum and the first election of Donald Trump to the US presidency-and considers how their focus on a future climate emergency serves as an apt reflection on the mutual reinforcements of neoliberalism, precarization, and far-right populism. By looking at these two novels together through the lens of the Capitalocene (Moore), the Trumpocene (Colebrook) an…

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Tres tristes tigres (Spanish: Tres tristes tigres, lit. 'Three Sad Tigers'), abbreviated as TTT, is the debut novel by Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The novel was first published in Spain in 1967. It was later translated into English by Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine and published in 1971 as Three Trapped Tigers. It is considered a classic of the Latin American Boom. It won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in 1970.

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Consuming Aesthetics: Seix Barral and Jose Donoso in the Field of Latin American Literary Production

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Héctor Abad Faciolince (born 1958) is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor who also holds Spanish citizenship. Abad is considered one of the most talented post-Latin American Boom writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling novel Angosta and, more recently, El Olvido que Seremos (t. Oblivion: A Memoir).

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Notes on the Latin American Avant-garde

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Appendix 1. Latin American Testimonios Exploring (Paid) Domestic Work and Published in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries

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One Writer, Two Authors: Resolving the Polemic of Latin America's First Published Novel

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First Chemistry Europe Latin American Biocatalysis Symposium

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Global trends in e-cigarette regulatory compliance: A bibliometric analysis of policies and emerging challenges.. Background Electronic cigarettes, commonly referred to as e-cigarettes, have spread rapidly across global markets. Their growth has created regulatory concerns involving product safety, nicotine levels, youth access, advertising practices, flavor controls, and protection of public health. Countries have adopted different regulatory approaches because of variation in public health priorities, tobacco-control policies, and legal systems. Bibliometric analysis cannot measure whether regulations are effective, but it can show how the scientific literature informing policy has develo…

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The influence of ethnicity and sex on lipid profile and cardiovascular risk factors: a population-based study.. Background Ethnically diverse populations can present variations in cardiovascular risk, which can be influenced by differences in lipid profiles and other cardiovascular risk factors. This study aimed to evaluate lipid profiles and traditional cardiovascular risk factors in a Mediterranean population, with a focus on variations by ethnicity and sex. Methods We conducted a population-based cross-sectional study using the "Information System for the Development of Research in Primary Care" (SIDIAP) database, which includes primary care data from Catalonia, Spain, collected between…