Research Catalog

Title

Terra nostra / Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden ; afterword by Milan Kundera.

Author

Fuentes, Carlos

Publication

[Normal Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xv, 785 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Chronological time is abolished and space concentrated into one area in a multi-dimensional pageant of Spanish history and culture that touches upon all facets of human experience.

Uniform Title

Terra nostra. English

Alternative Title

Terra nostra.

Subject

• Spanish fiction > Translations into English
• South America > History > Fiction
• Spain > History > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• History
• Translations

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: Seven Notes on Carlos Fuentes's Terra Nostra / Jorge Volpi -- The Old World -- Flesh, Spheres, Gray Eyes Beside the Seine -- At the Feet of El Señor -- Victory -- Who Are You? -- Monologue of the Lady Voyager -- Reunion of Sounds -- The Workers -- All My Sins -- On the Beach -- There Is a Clock That Does Not Strike -- The Kiss of the Page -- El Señor Begins to Remember -- El Señor Visits His Lands -- The Heir -- The Falcon and the Dove -- The Women of the Castle -- Jus Primae Noctis -- The Little Inquisitor -- The Plague -- Celestina -- The Flight -- Simón's Face -- In the Forest -- The Boat -- The City of the Sun -- Pedro's Dream -- Celestina's Dream -- Simón's Dream -- Ludovico's Dream -- Nowhere -- Here and Now -- The Reward -- The Silent Hour -- The Exhortation -- Ashes of the Brambles -- El Señor Sleeps -- Guzmán Speaks -- The Dogs -- Juan Agrippa -- Brief Life, Eternal Glory, Unchanging World -- Prisoner of Love -- Disasters and Portents -- The Mad Lady -- The First Testament -- The Palace Idiot -- Hawks and Hazards -- Portrait of a Prince -- The Chronicler -- The Last Couple -- Stages of the Night -- Crepusculum -- Fax -- Concubium -- Nox Intempesta -- Gallicinium -- Conticinium -- Aurora -- The Second Testament -- Nothing Happens -- Gazes -- The New World -- Morning Star -- Water Clock -- Whirlpool of the Night -- The Beyond -- Return to Life -- A Piece of Land -- The Exchange -- The People of the Jungle -- Words in the Temple -- The Ancient's Legend -- The Tributes -- The Burning Temple -- The Mother and the Well -- Day of the Water, Night of the Phantom -- Day of the Smoking Mirror -- Night of the Volcano -- Day of the Lagoon -- Night of Reflections -- Day of Flight -- Night of the Return.
• The Next World -- Love of Water -- The Decree -- Rumors -- Celestina and Ludovico -- The First Child -- The Death Cart -- The Toledo Jewry -- The Cabala -- The Second Child -- The Zohar -- The Somnambulist -- The Sephirot -- Celestina and the Devil -- Number 3 -- The Duel -- Two Speak of Three -- The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance -- A Sick Dream -- Wounded Lips -- The Third Child -- Specter of Time -- Memory upon the LIps -- Simón in Toledo -- The Alcazaba in Alexandria -- The Citizens of Heaven -- The Palace of Diocletian -- The Prophecy of the Third Age -- The Gypsy -- The Theater of Memory -- The Dreamers and the Blind Man -- The Beguines of Bruggs -- Inside the WIndmill -- Pedro on the Beach -- Schwester Katrei -- Giants and Princesses -- Ultima Thule -- Hertogenbosch -- Dulcinea -- First Man -- The Free Spirit -- The Galley Slaves -- The Lady of the Butterflies -- The Defeat -- Sing Your Troubles -- The Circular Dream -- The Cabo de los Desastres -- Mother Celestina -- The Seven Days of El Señor -- First Day -- Second Day -- Third Day -- Fourth Day -- Fifth Day -- Sixth Day -- Seventh Day-- The Rebellion -- Confessions of a Confessor -- Soul of Wax -- Corpus -- Manuscript of a Stoic -- Ashes -- The Restoration -- Requiem -- The Thirty-three Steps -- The Last city Afterword: Esch is Luther / Milan Kundera.

ISBN

1564782875 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002041570

OCLC

• 51266260
• SCSB-10720484

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library