Terrestrial Intelligence: International Fiction Now from New

Terrestrial Intelligence: International Fiction Now from New Directions
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New Directions, the discoverer of the greatest of the great contemporary world writersâ€”such as W. G. Sebald and Roberto BolaÃ±o, Inger Christensen and Bei Dao, Victor Pelevin and Javier MarÃasâ€”now puts them on display in a showcase anthology.

Terrestrial Intelligence gathers the best new ground-breaking fiction from around the world, from W. G. Sebald ("one of the most gripping writers imaginable," The New York Review of Books) and Roberto BolaÃ±o ("his generation's premier Latin-American writer, [his] reputation and legend are in meteoric ascent," The New York Times) to the Russian enfant terrible Victor Pelevin and the astonishing Yoko Tawada. Not to be missed are the pleasures of Antonio Tabucchi ("the most original voice in the new generation of Italian writers," The Harvard Book Review), Javier MarÃas ("Spain's best bait for the Nobel Prize," The New York Sun) and Yoel Hoffmann ("Israel's avant-garde genius," Forward). These are just a few of the two dozen fascinating new writers brought to you in wonderful translations, all on one plate, in Terrestrial Intelligence.

Take a trip around the worldâ€”Argentina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Russia, and Spainâ€”and sample the intelligence: we guarantee you will never look at these countries the same way again.

New Directionsâ€”"long struggling and long astonishing," as Richard Eder put it in The New York Timesâ€”is always busy presenting what people in other countries are reading: these are riches which resonate in Terrestrial Intelligence from story to story, like art hanging in an international biennale. These two showcase anthologies are convenient samplers, designed to push the wealth of the New Directions' list as a whole into a more public view. "It would be nice to think," as James Laughlin, founder of New Directions wrote to Ernest Hemingway in 1950, "that virtue met its reward without exterior pushes, but it just ain't so."
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2006-04-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811216500

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2006-04-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811216500

Terrestrial Intelligence: International Fiction Now from New Directions

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