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Julio Cortázar

Brief EncountersInternational LiteratureShort Fiction

31 Days of Stories 2023, Day 23: “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris” by Julio Cortázar; Paul Blackburn, trans.

May 23, 2023May 26, 2023

One of the pervasive themes running through the story is the conflict between order and chaos.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s classic dictator novel Mr. President has uncomfortable resonances in our modern era

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022

Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.

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