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LALT No. 5

Volume 1,

Number 5.

February,

2018

LALT No. 5 features powerful literary voices from across Latin America, including dossiers of essential writers Sergio Pitol and Victoria de Stefano, a special selection of Latin American chronicles curated by Felipe Restrepo Pombo, and a moving collection of trilingual poems by Mapuche poet Liliana Ancalao.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor's Note: February 2018

  • by Marcelo Rioseco
Featured Author: Sergio Pitol

Sergio Pitol: A Literary Ambassador from Mexico to the World

  • by George Henson

Sergio Pitol, a Heterodox Editor

  • by Ana Negri

A History of Some Prizes

  • by Sergio Pitol

Mephisto’s Waltz

  • by Sergio Pitol

Victorio Ferri Tells a Tale

  • by Sergio Pitol

Taming the Divine Form

  • by Daniel Saldaña París

Sergio Pitol, Translator

  • by Darío Jaramillo Agudelo

Pitol, a Project of Life

  • by Victoria de Stefano

What She Understood: A Reading of Sergio Pitol’s “Mephisto’s Waltz”

  • by Juan Villoro

An Ars Poetica?

  • by Sergio Pitol
Dossier: Victoria de Stefano

Victoria de Stefano: “I always leaned more towards authenticity”: A Conversation with Carmen de Eusebio

  • by Victoria de Stefano

Extracts from a Conversation with Victoria de Stefano

  • by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza, Victoria de Stefano

Victoria de Stefano: A Presence that Leaves a Work Waiting

  • by Sergio Chejfec

An Extract from Lluvia [Rain]

  • by Victoria de Stefano

The Outside which Forces its Way In, or the Writing of Victoria de Stefano

  • by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza
Latin American Science Fiction

Leaving Behind Reality's Ruins: Following the Digital Tracks of Latin American Cyberpunk

  • by Marcelo Novoa

Golem

  • by Jaime Collyer

Cuban Cyberpunk on the Rise: Variations and Successors

  • by Raúl Aguiar
Latin American Chronicle

I Don't Laugh At Death

  • by Diego Enrique Osorno

Searching for Nicanor

  • by Leila Guerriero

The Fox’s-Eye View

  • by Felipe Restrepo Pombo
Nonfiction

Five Flash Nonfictions

  • by Fabio Morábito
Poetry

Four Poems

  • by Luis Hernández

Two Poems

  • by Carlos Martínez Rivas
Interviews

Achy Obejas: "Translation as Something to Play With": A Conversation with George Henson

  • by Achy Obejas, George Henson

“Carlos Cociña: From Collapse to the Certainty of Construction”: A Conversation with Sergio Rodríguez Saavedra

  • by Carlos Cociña, Sergio Rodríguez Saavedra
Indigenous Literature

Liliana Ancalao: "There was so much crying, and a lot of laughter, too": A Conversation with Melisa Stocco

  • by Liliana Ancalao, Melisa Stocco

Five Poems

  • by Liliana Ancalao

Liliana Ancalao and the Poetry of Puel Mapu

  • by Seth Michelson

Two Poems

  • by Liliana Ancalao

The Silenced Language

  • by Liliana Ancalao
Translation Previews and New Releases

An Excerpt from The Bottom of the Sky

  • by Rodrigo Fresán
Nota Bene

Nota Bene: February 2018

  • by LALT Team
Book Reviews

Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 by Julio Cortázar

  • by George Henson

Heretics by Leonardo Padura

  • by Elizabeth Fifer

The Tower of the Antilles by Achy Obejas

  • by Margaret Randall

A Working Woman by Elvira Navarro

  • by Bridey Heing

Una violencia sencilla by Lorena Huitrón Vázquez

  • by Eva Castañeda B.

O futuro by Abraham Gragera

  • by Néstor Mendoza

Eterna Juventud by César Aira

  • by Carolina Sitya-Nin

Ni Bárbaras ni Malinches: Antología de narradoras en español en Estados Unidos by Fernando Olszanski

  • by Melanie Márquez Adams

El canto y la piedra by Mijaíl Lamas

  • by Marco Antonio Murillo

Hunter of Stories by Eduardo Galeano

  • by Arthur Dixon

Diarios 1988-1989: La insubordinación de los márgenes by Victoria de Stefano

  • by Claudia Cavallin

Litane by Alejandro Tarrab

  • by Vicent Moreno

Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego by Mariana Enríquez

  • by Pablo Brescia

The School of Solitude and Gran Jefe un Lado del Cielo by Luis Hernández

  • by César Ferreira
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