Alejandro Zambra

"Written in the form of a standardized test, Multiple Choice invites the reader to respond to virtuoso language exercises and short narrative passages through multiple-choice questions that are thought-provoking, usually unanswerable, and often absurd. It offers a new kind of reading experience, one in which the reader participates directly in the creation of meaning, and the nature of storytelling itself is called into question"--

Multiple Choice

Bonsai

Alejandro Zambra returns with a beautiful, but seriously funny, declaration of love to poetry. Gonzalo is a step poet who wants to be a poet, and a stepfather. He behaves as if he were Vicente's biological father, a child who later refuses to study at a university because his dream is to -also- become a poet.

Poeta chileno

Megan McDowell

Worried that his wife Veronica will not return home from an art class, Julian imagines his stepdaughter Daniela's future without her mother and tells her an improvisional bedtime story.

The Private Lives of Trees

The internationally acclaimed author, heralded as one of the most important writers of his generation, returns with the most substantial work of his career: an emotionally captivating, very funny novel about fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and the many forms of family Nine years after their bewildering breakup, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his high school girlfriend, Carla, now the mother of a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the three form a happy sort-of family--a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language. After a few years, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions, but traces of Gonzalo remain: Vicente inherits his love of poetry. When, at eighteen, he meets Pru, an American journalist literally and figuratively lost in Santiago, he encourages her to write about Chilean poets--not the famous ones, Neruda, Bolaño, but the contemporary scene, also, in its own way, a kind of family. By the time Pru's article is published, Gonzalo has returned to Chile. But will he and Vicente find their way back to one another? In Chilean Poet, Alejandro Zambra chronicles with enormous tenderness and insight the everyday moments--absurd, painful, sexy, sweet, profound--that make up our personal histories. Exploring how we choose our families and how we betray them, and what it means to be a man in relationships, it is a bold and brilliant new work by one of the most important writers of our time.

A Novel

Chilean Poet

My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature, and described by Junot Díaz as “a total knockout.” Now, in his first short story collection, Zambra gives us eleven stories of liars and ghosts, armed bandits and young lovers—brilliant portraits of life in Chile before and after Pinochet. The cumulative effect is that of a novel—or of eleven brief novels, intimate and uncanny, archived until now in a desktop folder innocuously called “My Documents.” Zambra’s remarkable vision and erudition is on full display here; this book offers clear evidence of a sublimely talented writer working at the height of his powers.

My Documents

The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle during an overnight camp-out. By the award-winning author of Bonsai.

Ways of Going Home

“Bir keresinde kayboldum. Altı ya da yedi yaşındaydım. Aklım başka yere gitmişti, birden annemle babamı kaybettim. Korktum ama sonra yolumu buldum ve eve onlardan önce vardım – ümitsizlik içinde beni arıyorlardı. Ama bence o akşamüstü asıl onlar kaybolmuştu. Çünkü ben eve dönmeyi biliyordum ama onlar bilmiyordu.” 2010 yılında Granta’nın İspanyolca yazan en iyi yirmi iki romancı arasında gösterdiği Şilili genç yazar Alejandro Zambra, üçüncü romanı Eve Dönmenin Yolları’nda belleğimizdeki lekeleri kazırken geçmiş ve şimdi arasında bocalayan insana kendine dönüş yolunu gösteriyor. Eve Dönmenin Yolları’ndaki yazar adayı anlatıcı tek başına yaşıyor, bolca sigara içiyor, kadınlarla birlikte oluyor, romanını yazmaya çalışıyor. Bu sırada da geçmişin izini sürüyor. Anlatıcıyla birlikte okur da Pinochet diktatörlüğünde yaşanan zor zamanlara, büyük 1985 depreminin acı kayıplarına, çocukluk aşklarına, hayal kırıklıklarına dönüyor.

Eve Dönmenin Yolları

Available for the first time from Penguin in a beautifully rendered new translation, international literary sensation Alejandro Zambra’s emotionally engrossing and brilliantly distilled first novel—a “wrenching account of failed young love . . . a total knockout” (Junot Díaz) Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves, and try new identities on for size, observing and analyzing their love story as if it’s one of the great novels they both pretend to have read. As they shadow each other throughout their young adulthoods, falling together and drifting apart, Zambra spins a formally innovative, metafictional tale that brilliantly explores the relationship among love, art, and memory.

Agaclarin Özel Hayati

Bonzai

öykü

Belgelerim

Over the course of the chronicles and literary essays that make up this volume, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading. Whether it is in the course of a carefully considered commentary on a specific book, or in the digressions born out of a piece on this or that author - from Parra, Levrero and Pavese to Millán, Ribeyro, Tanizaki or Bolaño, Natalia Ginzburg and Puig - the simple act of reading dominates these pages, within which the author alternates between forceful and good-humoured rants against clichés and impostures and intimist celebrations of true literary experiences. The book's title is an allusion to the moment when Zambra decided to stop writing a weekly literary column and began instead to experiment, as he explains, with the pleasure of not reading certain books, thus allowing himself the freedom to open himself up to readings not imperative to the daily routine of literary journalism. As in his novels and poems, in Not to Read Alejandro Zambra unfurls his characteristic style, which place ambiguity, restraint and uncertainty above everything else, and offer up the suggestion that certain books can touch us in substantial ways. In doing so the outlines of a kind of blurry self-portrait emerge - something like the image of an exemplary writer and reader reflected in a concave mirror, in his library, and surrounded by ghosts and feelings.

Not to Read

Formas de volver a casa habla de la generación de quienes, como dice el narrador, aprendían a leer o a dibujar mientras sus padres se convertían en cómplices o víctimas de la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet. La esperada tercera novela de Alejandro Zambra mu

Formas de volver a casa

"The tale of a young writer who falls for a woman who disappears while he is pretending to edit a book that doesn't exist, it brilliantly explores the relationship between art, love, and life. And with a beguiling form that seems whimsical on the one hand, wiser-than-its-years on the other, it is a work of such striking originality and unusual beauty as to make it seem both simple and profound."--BOOK JACKET.

Literatura Infantil

Okumamak

Julio tombe amoureux d'Emilia. Leur histoire est belle, faite de plus d'omissions que de mensonges et de moins d'omissions que de vérités. Mais leur amour finit et Emilia disparaît. Des années plus tard, son amie Anita part la chercher à Madrid. Pendant ce temps, Julio décide de se consacrer à la culture du bonsaï. Des personnages qui se croisent sans jamais se rencontrer, telle est la trame de Bonsaï. Alejandro Zambra n'offre ainsi aucune issue à ses personnages. Décrivant un monde en mouvement, mais qui ne fait pas sens, il pointe du doigt la vanité des hommes et leur impossibilité à être.

Bonsaï

Şilili yazar Alejandro Zambra’nın deneme ve öyküleri tür ya da konu gibi sınırlara boyun eğmeksizin Serbest Kürsü’de bir araya geliyor. Okumak, yazmak, çeviri, dil ve edebiyat dünyası ekseninde dönen eleştirel ve mizahi bakışı türlü türlü odaktan geçiyor: öğretmenlik, eleştirmenlik, şiir ve müzik, depremler, Santiago, New York ve Meksiko’da yaşamanın farklı deneyimleri, çocukluk, aile hayatı, ebeveynlik… Dilin sesine kulak veren, takıntılarla ve çelişkilerle hemhal olmaya korkmayan yaklaşımıyla Alejandro Zambra samimiyet dolu bir anlatı dünyası kuruyor. “Edebiyatta sadece üç, dört, bilemedin beş konu olduğu söyleniyor ama belki de tek bir konu vardır: ait olmak. Tüm kitaplar ait olma arzusu yahut bu arzuyu reddetme üzerinden okunabilir. Bize konu serbest dendiğinde bunun hakkında yazıyoruz; aşk, ölüm, seyahat, sinekler, telgraflar ya da döner tekerlekli bavullar hakkında yazdığımızı zannederken de yine bunun hakkında yazıyoruz. İster şaka yollu ister ciddiyetle, ister şiir ister düzyazı biçiminde hep bundan bahsediyoruz: ait olmak.” İspanyolcadan çeviren Seda Ersavcı Notos Edebiyat – Deneme, Öykü

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