Antonio Munoz Molina

Beltenebros (Novela (Booket Numbered))

Winter in Lisbon

Edith Grossman

In the Night of Time

Una Novela De Novelas

Sefarad

El Viento De La Luna/ the Wind of the Moon (Biblioteca Breve / Brief Library)

Sepharad

Cand incredibilul se intampla in fiecare zi iar imposibilul se intampla numai duminica! Publicat in anii ’60 in plin avant al cercetarii stiintifice sovietice amintind de lumea lui Gogol si de universul lui Kafka romanul Lunea incepe sambata etaleaza o fantezie fara margini si un umor irezistibil. Povestite cu un simt ludic inegalabil aventurile lui Sasa din Leningrad si activitatile Centrului de Analiza a Notiunilor Cabalistice Inexplicabile reprezinta pretextul ideal pentru persiflarea regimului comunist si a aberatiilor lui. Privind spre omul real de langa noi prin intermediul unei fictiuni in care umanul este cel mai adesea deformat capodopera comica a lui Boris si Arkadi Strugatki cea mai cunoscuta carte a celor doi scriitori in tara natala face elogiul omului de stiinta pasionat si increzator obsedat de fericirea fiintei umane.

În noaptea timpului - Editura Nemira

Winner of the 2020 Prix Médicis Etranger I want to live on foot, by hand, by pencil, at ease, responsive to whatever I meet, loose like the air that moves around my body as I walk or like a graceful swimming stroke. I want to remain astonished. Join Antonio Muñoz Molina for a walk through Madrid, Paris, London and New York, where the past and the present live side by side in the literature of newspaper headlines, billboards, casual glances and overheard conversation. This is the digital metropolis, captured in notebooks, recorded on the iPhone, where Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Charles Baudelaire, Thomas de Quincey, Fernando Pessoa and Walter Benjamin step beside us, all of us writing the unfinished poem of the crowded city.

To Walk Alone in the Crowd

"[A] translucent novel of passion, illusion and social class....slyly witty and luminous." —Francine Prose in O, The Oprah Magazine During working hours, Mario is a dutiful bureaucrat, scrupulously earning his paycheck as an employee of the provincial Spanish town where he lives. But when he walks through the door of his apartment, he is transformed into the impassioned lover of Blanca, the beautiful, inscrutable wife he saved from the brink of personal crisis. For the love of Blanca, Mario eats sushi and carpaccio, nods in feigned understanding at experimental films, sits patiently through long conversations with her avant-garde friends, and conceals his disgust at shocking art exhibits. Then, little by little, a strange and ominous threat begins to weigh on the marriage. How can love survive its own disappearance? The desperate answer that Antonio Muñoz Molina proposes in this short, circular novella is a model of literary strategy and style, a splendid homage to Flaubert.

In Her Absence

October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embattled country, his own transformation from a bricklayer's son to a respected bourgeois husband and professional, and the all-consuming love affair with an American woman that forever alters his life. A rich, panoramic portrait of Spain on the brink of civil war, In the Night of Time details the passions and tragedies of a country tearing itself apart. Compared in scope and importance to War and Peace, Muoz Molina's masterpiece is the great epic of the Spanish Civil War written by one of Spain's most important contemporary novelists.

Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 On April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentencing to 99 years' imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for two months as he crossed the globe under various aliases. At the heart of his story is Lisbon, where he spent ten days attempting to acquire an Angolan visa. Like a Fading Shadow traces three journeys to the city: Ray's desperate attempt to evade justice in 1968; a research trip undertaken by the young Muoz Molina for his breakthrough novel Winter in Lisbon in 1987; and the return journey taken by the novelist as he attempts to reconstruct these twin stories from the instability of the past, and interrogates his own obsession with one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures. Aided by the recent declassification of James Earl Ray's FBI case file, Like a Fading Shadow boldly weaves a taut retelling of Ray's assassination of King, his time on the run and his eventual capture together with a highly original, fearlessly honest examination of the novelist's own past.

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