Lunatics, lovers & poets : twelve stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare / edited by Daniel Hahn & Margarita Valencia ; introduced by Salman Rushdie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hahn, Daniel, editor.

Valencia, Margarita, editor.

Rushdie, Salman, writer of introduction.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Short stories--Translations into English.

Short stories.

Short stories, Spanish.

Genre:

Short stories, Spanish.

Short stories.

Translations.

Physical Description:

247 pages ; 20 cm

Other Title:

Lunatics, lovers and poets

Twelve stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : And Other Stories, 2016.

Summary:

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes, six English-speaking authors and six Spanish-speaking authors have collected 12 original and previously unpublished stories as their tribute to the international influence of these two giants of world literature. An introduction by Salman Rushdie explores the legacy of the two men in contemporary fiction.

Contents:

Don Quixote and the ambuiguity of reading / Ben Okri

Mir Aslam of Kolachi / Kamila Shamsie

The dogs of war / Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translator: Anne McLean

Coriolanus / Yuri Herrera ; translator: Lisa Dillman

Glass / Nell Leyshon

Opening windows / Marcos Giralt Torrente ; translator: Samantha Schnee

The piano bar / Hisham Matar

The secret life of Shakespeareans / Soledad Puértolas ; translator: Rosalind Harvey

Egyptian puppet / Vicente Molina Foix ; translator: Frank Wynne

The glass woman / Deborah Levy

The anthology massacre / Rhidian Brook

Shakespeare, New Mexico / Valeria Luiselli ; translator: Christiana MacSweeney.

Notes:

"A Hay Festival Anthology"--Page [4] of cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781908276780

1908276789

OCLC:

920018947