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Rodrigo Fresán
Rodrigo Fresán (born 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a fiction writer and journalist. Since 1999, Fresán has lived and worked in Barcelona, Spain. His books have been translated into many languages. ''Mantra'', a portrait of Mexico City ca. 2000, reveals the deep influence of science fiction novels ( Philip K. Dick in particular), movies ( Stanley Kubrick) and TV shows ( ''The Twilight Zone''). According to Jonathan Lethem, "he's a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room." He was a close friend of the late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. Works * ''Historia Argentina'' (1991) * ''Vidas de santos'' (1993) * ''Trabajos Manuales'' (1994) * ''Esperanto'' (1995) * ''La velocidad de las cosas'' (1998) * ''Mantra'' (2001) * ''Jardines de Kensington'' (2003). ''Kensington Gardens'', trans. Natasha Wimmer (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006) * '' El fondo del cielo'' (2009). ''The Bottom of the Sky'', trans. Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodrigo Fresán (2019)
Rodrigo Fresán (born 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a fiction writer and journalist. Since 1999, Fresán has lived and worked in Barcelona, Spain. His books have been translated into many languages. ''Mantra'', a portrait of Mexico City ca. 2000, reveals the deep influence of science fiction novels ( Philip K. Dick in particular), movies (Stanley Kubrick) and TV shows ( ''The Twilight Zone''). According to Jonathan Lethem, "he's a kaleidoscopic, open-hearted, shamelessly polymathic storyteller, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room." He was a close friend of the late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. Works * ''Historia Argentina'' (1991) * ''Vidas de santos'' (1993) * ''Trabajos Manuales'' (1994) * ''Esperanto'' (1995) * ''La velocidad de las cosas'' (1998) * ''Mantra'' (2001) * ''Jardines de Kensington'' (2003). ''Kensington Gardens'', trans. Natasha Wimmer (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2006) * '' El fondo del cielo'' (2009). ''The Bottom of the Sky'', trans. Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Parte Inventada
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note * "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure 8'' (album) * ''L.A.'' (EP), by Teddy Thompson * ''L.A. (Light Album)'', a Beach Boys album * "L.A." (Neil Young song), 1973 * The La's, an English rock band * L.A. Reid, a prominent music producer * Yung L.A., a rapper * Lady A, an American country music trio * "L.A." (Amy Macdonald song), 2007 * "La", a song by Australian-Israeli singer-songwriter Old Man River Other media * l(a, a poem by E. E. Cummings * La (Tarzan), fictional queen of the lost city of Opar (Tarzan) * ''Lá'', later known as Lá Nua, an Irish language newspaper * La7, an Italian television channel * LucasArts, an American video game developer and publisher * Liber Annuus, academic journal Business, organizations, and government agencies * L.A. Screenings, a tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Buenos Aires
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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