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  • Anuarí
    Teresa Wilms Montt / Jessica Sequeira
    Beyond the melodramatic events of her brief life, the work of Chilean poet Teresa Wilms Montt (1893-1921) resists the passage of time with the strangeness of its images of eternity and the beauty of its oneiric song of contemplation, composed amidst the deepest horror.In Anuarí, Wilms Montt’s collection of prose poems which was first published in 1918 and is presented here for ...
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    15,44 €

  • What is Love
    Manuel Magallanes Moure / Jessica Sequeira
    What is Love, a collection of four stories by the Chilean poet, painter and art critic Manuel Magallanes Moure (1878-1924), directly poses the question at the heart of writing and life. These tales set in early 20th-century Chile, deceptive in their illusion of simplicity, portray love at a printing press, on a crowded avenue at New Year, in a Santiago living room on a hot summ...
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    18,00 €

  • The Valley Loses Its Atmosphere
    Winett de Rokha / Jessica Sequeira
    The Valley Loses Its Atmosphere is the final collection by Chilean poet Winétt de Rokha. A book of 48 poems written during a journey across Latin America, it is a canto americano, an epic poem that sings of a united América through its land and peoples. The poems give attention to the land and social conditions, mentioning the 'banana plantations, rubber plantations, farmlands ...
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    20,60 €

  • Asphodels
    Bernardo Couto Castillo / Jessica Sequeira
    In Greek mythology, the asphodel is a flower associated with death; the souls of ordinary mortals are sent to the Asphodel Meadows, vast fields of the underworld. In the twelve stories of Asphodels, Mexican author Bernardo Couto Castillo (1879-1901), a cult figure in Mexico due to his short life and French-influenced Decadent writings, explores death in its many varieties, from...
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    15,59 €

  • Sentimental Doubts
    Teresa Wilms Montt / Jessica Sequeira
    Sentimental Doubts, here translated into English for the first time by Jessica Sequeira, was iconic Chilean writer ­Teresa Wilms Montt’s first book. It was originally published in 1917, in Buenos Aires, after the author had left an entire life behind her in Santiago: her husband, her parents, the convent where she’d been confined for supposedly committing adultery, and her two ...
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    13,40 €

  • Sentimental Stories
    Enrique Gómez Carrillo / Sequeira Jessica
    Sentimental Stories by Guatemalan born Enrique Gómez Carrillo, man of letters, duelist and dandy, originally published in 1900 and here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Jessica Sequeira, is an exquisite selection of nine tales that covers the ground from desire to insanity, fulfillment in erotic love to suffering in intense anguish. In these stories o...
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    13,46 €

  • The Turquoise Ring
    Rafaela Contreras / Jessica Sequeira
    The nine stories gathered here as The Turquoise Ring and Other Stories, written by the Costa Rican born Rafaela Contreras, were originally published in newspapers in El ­Salvador and Guatemala during the short period between 1890-91, but never appeared in book form during the author’s lifetime. Composed in an almost fairytale-like style, with approaches that suggest a proto-mod...
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    13,36 €

  • In the Stillness of Marble
    Teresa Wilms Montt / Jessica Sequeira
    Originally published in Spain in 1918, and here translated into English for the first time by Jessica Sequeira, In the Stillness of Marble is a set of thirty-five prose poems by the Chilean writer Teresa Wilms Montt directly addressed to a dead lover named Anuarí, who in reality was Horacio Ramos Mejía, a nineteen-year-old man who killed himself in front of her after his love w...
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    13,33 €

  • When I Think of My Missing Head
    Adolfo Couve / Jessica Sequeira
    Camondo, a painter, wakes up one morning in his studio with his head missing, it having been yanked from his body the night before by Marieta, a model. This is a punishment from the gods, who have already taken away his artistic talent. Now, mysteriously resurrected but not quite intact, Camondo wanders about a seaside town wearing a Franciscan habit stolen from church in an at...
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    15,13 €