Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Los Angeles : And Other Stories, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Hahn, Daniel
• Valencia, Margarita
• Rushdie, Salman

Description

247 pages; 20 cm

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and Cervantes, six English-speaking authors and six Spanish-speaking authors have collected 12 original and previously unpublished stories as their tribute to the international influence of these two giants of world literature.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.

Alternative Title

• Lunatics, lovers and poets
• Twelve stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare

Subject

• Short stories > Translations into English
• Short stories, Spanish

Genre/Form

Short stories

Note

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781908276780
• 1908276789

OCLC

920018947

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library