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Rodrigo Fresán

Issue 26.

June,

2023

In our twenty-sixth issue, we highlight an author as beloved as he is groundbreaking: Rodrigo Fresán, with a dossier edited by María José Navia. We also feature powerful statements from Nicaraguan writers forced into exile, a new section dedicated to world literature from the pages of our parent publication, World Literature Today, and the winner of our first annual literary essay contest, Mexican writer Olivia Teroba, with her essay “Money and Writing.” This new issue closes with exclusive translation previews and reflections on the art of translation from Kristin Dykstra and Erín Moure, as well as homages to Victoria de Stefano and Jorge Edwards, essential voices of Latin American letters whom we lost this year.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: June 2023

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: Rodrigo Fresán

Rodrigo Fresán: Literature’s Master of Ceremonies (Introduction to an Impossible Dossier)

By María José Navia

From History to Stories, from Nation to Fiction

By Rodrigo Bastidas Pérez

Rodrigo Fresán and the Novel of the Year 2000

By Nicolás Campisi

Seven Notes on La velocidad de las cosas and the Expansion of the Universe

By Ramiro Sanchiz

Translators’ Triptych: Around the World (All Worlds) In One Sentence by Rodrigo Fresán

By LALT Team

Dossier: Nicaraguan Writers in Exile

The Tongue that Is My Homeland

By Sergio Ramírez

Books and Home

By Fátima Villalta

The Country that Was and the Words that Remain

By José Adiak Montoya

Everything Burned Up In the Distance

By Mario Martz

ESSAYS

The Poetry of Heberto Padilla beyond “The Padilla Affair”

By Víctor Carreño

The Death-Hater

By Federico Hoyos Gutiérrez

The Behind-the-Scenes of C.E. Feiling’s El agua electrizada: Disputed Biographical and Political Landscapes

By Mariano Vespa

First Annual LALT Literary Essay Contest

WINNING ESSAY: Money and Writing

By Olivia Teroba

INTERVIEWS

Jorge Chagas: “I believe young Afrouruguayan fiction writers will emerge”

By Jorge Sarasola

Language that Devastates: An Interview with Clyo Mendoza

By Pablo Concha

Death, Humor, and Dignity in the Novel: An Interview with Gustavo Rodríguez

By Ricardo Sumalavia

World Literature from WLT

A Republic of the Imagination: In Conversation with Azar Nafisi

By Daniel Simon

Mathematics in Science Fiction: Mathematics as Science Fiction

By David Fowler

Vectors, Vanishing Points, and Vicissitudes in the Works of Jenny Erpenbeck

By Robert Lemon

Fiction

Precise Instructions

By Sofía Balbuena

An Excerpt from Desagüe

By Diego Rodríguez Landeros

Heat Blast

By Héctor Iván González

POETRY

Four Poems from Dear Beth

By Andrea Cote-Botero

Three Poems from Camposanto: El alma no tiene tiempo 

By Adhely Rivero

Five Poems from Diario ínfimo

By Mercedes Roffé

Indigenous Literature

Four Poems from Tákúu ndi’i tachi si’í yu / Todas las voces de mi madre

By Florentino Solano

Tietê: Mother of the River, Region Where the River Floods and Fertilizes the Land

By Daniel Munduruku

Four Poems from Ñu’ú vixo / Tierra mojada

By Nadia López García

In Memoriam

Goodbye, Dear Victoria, the World Will Always Fit in Your Room

By Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

Jorge Edwards, Transgressor of Genres

By Jorge Eduardo Benavides

Translation Previews and New Releases

From Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character, translated by Katrina Dodson

By Mário de Andrade

From The Jewish Son, translated by Jessica Sequeira

By Daniel Guebel

ON TRANSLATION

On Amanda Berenguer’s The Lady of Elche: A Poetics Battling Negation

By Erín Moure

Seeking Publisher: from Ghost Horse, translated by Rowena Galavitz

By Karina Sosa Castañeda

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: June 2023

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

La terca audacia de la mosca by Braulio Fernández Biggs

By Zenaida M. Suárez Mayor

Un poco demasiado: Notas sobre el chantaje del presente by Maximiliano Crespi

By Guillermo Goicoechea

Ulises y los juguetes rotos by Ernesto Carriøn

By Adolfo Macías

El cuerpo es quien recuerda by Paula Puebla

By Francisco Bitar

El amor que nos queda by Fernanda Reyes Retana

By Keila Vall de la Ville

Los desterrados by Julián Chang

By Alberto Hernández

El dolor de la sangre by Kathy Serrano

By Sophia Gómez Cardeña

Luces altas, luces de peligro by Gladys Mendía

By Susanna González Turigas

Final sin fin by Eugenio Montejo

By Francisco-José Cruz

La estación del pantano by Yuri Herrera

By Erica Durante

Un delicado temblor by Filonús Gonzáles

By Noraya Ccoyure Tito

Interiores by Juan Vitulli

By Lenin Heredia Mimbela

La construcción by Ignacio Vásquez Caces

By Ismael Gavilán

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