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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on February 20, 2000. The length of the article is 2043 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El conflicto intelectual entre Eliot Weinberger y la revista Paréntesis.(TT: The intellectual conflict between Eliot Weinberger and the magazine Parenthesis.)
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 20, 2000
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on August 10, 2003. The length of the article is 498 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El horror americano: Eliot Weinberger.(Reseña de libro)
Author: Juan José Reyes
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: August 10, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 50Issue: 2617Page: 72(2)

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on April 26, 1998. The length of the article is 815 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El traductor Eliot Weinberger: 'quedan excelentes poetas mexicanos, montañas solitarias; Paz era Los Himalayas'.(TT: The translator Eliot Weinberger: 'there still are excellent Mexican poets, solitary mountains; Paz was The Himalayas)(Interview)
Author: Ana Cecilia Terrazas
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 26, 1998
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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In the 1920s, the young J.R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah's fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature. ... Read more

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An Excellent Read
I personally enjoy memoirs so I jumped at the chance to read this book when my study abroad program had it listed as required reading. Although it seems a bit dated, since it's from the early 20s, Ackerley presents an awesomely sympathetic view of the Indian people mere decades before the Partition during a time when the British weren't so keen on the Idian culture (as Ackerley makes the reader aware of with his portraits of resident British). I thought Ackerley wrote a stunningly entertaining book, giving candid portraits of various Indians and British alike. As long as you don't mind reading about the everday goings-on then you'll love this book. Apparently it also gives a very accurate description of India at this time, or my program wouldn't have had it on its list of required reading.

A literary holiday.
What an absolute charmer this journal is.This is one of those books that I've been meaning to read for a number of years, but for one reason or another had never got around to.I'm so happy I finally did.Not at all what I expected.I've enjoyed a number of books covering the theme of East meets West culture clashes such as Orwell's brilliant "Burmese Days," Ruth Jhabvala's "Heat and Dust" and Forster's "A Passage to India" and "The Hill of Devi."Still, I think it is Ackerley's whimsical reminiscence I like best.

Published in 1932, I know that some will find this book dated and politically incorrect.I prefer to accept it as a product of its time.The journal covers the six months that Ackerley served as a private secretary to a Maharajah.The author pokes fun at the many arcane traditions and myths of the Hindu culture, without ever becoming malicious. The Indian King is somewhat of an incorrigible lech and maker of mischief as depicted by Ackerley.The stuffy British aren't spared the barb either.I particulary loved this exchange: "...'Do you like India?' Mrs. Bristow asked me.'Oh, yes.I think it's marvelous.''And what do you think of the people?''I like them very much, and think them most interesting.''Oo, aren't you a fibber!What was it you said the other day about "awful Anglo-Indian chatter"?''But I thought you were speaking of the Indians just now, not the Ango-Indians.''The Indians! I never think of them.''Well, you said "the people," you know.''I meant us people, stupid.''I see.Well now, let's start again.'"

Openly homosexual, Ackerley has great fun documenting his flirtatious encounters with a number of the Maharajah's servants - "....And in the dark roadway, overshadowed by trees, he put up his face and kissed me on the cheek.I returned his kiss: but he at once drew back, crying out: 'Not the mouth!You eat meat!You eat meat!' 'Yes, and I will eat you in a minute,' I said, and kissed him on the lips again, and this time he did not draw away."Altogether disarming and delightful (and not at all exploitive).Highly recommended.

Droll, often disquieting, observations of the British Raj
A journal of Ackerley's stay in the Indian province of Chhatarpur during the 1920s, "Hindoo Holiday" records and mocks the muddled morality and intellectual immaturity of both slothful Indian rulers and equally pampered British colonialists. After Ackerley returned from India, he spent several years touching up his diary for publication; he changed the names, toned down the sexual content, and removed passages that might be considered libelous. This recently published version is the first unexpurgated American edition, with all the cuts restored.

Ackerley's intent was to be mischievous and outrageous and comic; and his book became both a critical hit and, to everyone's surprise, his most commercially successful work. The book is at its best in its humorous depictions of the Maharajah, his private secretary Babaji Rao, and the contingent of valets, including the endearingly sweet Sharma and Narayan. For the most part, Ackerley's portraits are nonjudgmental and fond; he reserves his venom for the British guests and, to a lesser extent, for his sycophantic tutor, Abdul, and clumsy servant-child, Habib.

Throughout "Hindoo Holiday" there is a disconcerting, even creepy, undercurrent that revolves around the sexual despotism of the Maharajah, whose predatory advances are directed towards the "Gods"--his name for the boys in his employ. "Boys" is Ackerley's term; at least one is identified as being twenty and several are married, so it's possibly more accurate to call most of them young men. But, whatever their age, these youngsters are compelled to have sexual relations with the Maharajah--and with his wife while he's watching. Complicating this issue is the subtly hinted possibility that the ruler is suffering from the advanced stages of syphilis. (The paternity of the palace's heirs is a great mystery, as well.) Only a few of the youths seem able to withstand his advances, and Ackerley often must come to the defense of Narayan, one of the "Gods" who refuses to comply.

Ackerley reports these incidents with disquieting aplomb. His own role in these matters is rather innocent; according to biographer Peter Parker, he limited his affections to kissing and holding hands: "If he had sexual relations whilst in India, he left no record of the fact." (And Ackerley was not known for being shy about such matters in either his journals or correspondence.) Nevertheless, intentionally or not, the goings-on in the palace are emblematic of the corruption, indolence, and decadence of the British Raj.

Most modern readers, then, will find much of the tone and material and humor in "Hindoo Holiday" a bit dated. Yet Ackerley's memoir is still an accurate portrait of the time--and there are moments of brilliant hilarity.

I thought it was great
Ackerly is a naughty naughty man.I agree with another reviewer who said that he was honest in his depicitions of the people he encountered as well as himself.Ackerly understood the hearts of the people he knew.Often he made fun of what he saw in people, but he knew them and knew when to put away his naughtiness.This was a great book. It was funny and charming.It gave me a glance into what India was like and may still be.I highly recommend this book to anyone with an open mind.

Sly and Witty
This is one of those books that I will always keep by my bed as a reminder not to take myself too seriously in any capacity.I found this a terribly funny book, mostly becuase it rang so true.Ackerley is fabulous company, shockingly observant and brutally honest, even when it plunges him into bad light.We tip-toe so carefully around so many of the subjects he faces head on - racism, homosexuality, class and privilege.He doesn't flinch. ... Read more

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An enchanting read!!

This excellent edition of the collection of poetry by Paz presents the English translations facing the Spanish originals.
Paz who served as a Mexican diplomat in India and Japan and who also lived in France and was influenced by the surrealistic wave, does not cease to surprise the reader with the elegant places, new ideas and images that he takes up.
An enchanting read!
Joyce Akesson, author of Love's Thrilling Dimensions and the The Invitation

A Beautiful Collection
If you enjoy the poetry of Octavio Paz (born 1914- died 1998), this collection is a wonderful addition to your library. Paz wrote literature and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990 and he also wrote poetry. Poems are presented in both Spanish and English.

Paz is a lyrical writer and his imagery takes you inside the poem and inside yourself. Take "Between Going and Staying" and the first stanza:

Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.

and the last stanza:

The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.

You can feel the stillness, feel the immersion, feel the pause.

If you are new to Paz and his poetry he is a wonderful poet like the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca--both are incomparable in weaving their words into poetic moments.

An enchanting read!
This excellent edition of the collection of poetry by Paz presents the English translations facing the Spanish originals.
Paz who served as a Mexican diplomat in India and Japan and who also lived in France and was influenced by the surrealistic wave, does not cease to surprise the reader with the elegant places, new ideas and images that he takes up.
An enchanting read!

Collected Poems of Octavio Paz
This is an excellent edition of the collected poems of Octavio Paz, with English translations facing the Spanish originals. I purchased this as a gift for my Spanish teacher and she was delighted! My favorites are his poems written when he served as a Mexican diplomat in India and Japan. His sensitive mind absorbed the nuances of place and religion, which are recreated for us in the poems. His efforts at haiku en espagnol are enlightening, pun intended.

excellent poetry
I bought this book after reading an excerpt of one of Paz's poems at a camp. I didn't know what poem it was from, so I bought the book and scoured it until I found the poem. It was Brotherhood. The poetry is beautiful and moving. It is the type of poetry you can read and enjoy no matter if you understand what it is saying, the writing is that beautiful ... Read more

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"Starts off as a manifesto but becomes richer and more suggestive as it develops."—The New York SunWith exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson free of all the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and shows the poet in touch with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all her radical zealotry and poetic glory. Her Emily Dickinson is a unique American genius, a demon lover of poetry—no neurasthenic spider artist. Howe draws into her discussion Browning, Wuthering Heights, the Civil War, "Master," the great Puritan preachers, captivity narratives, Shakespeare, and phantom lovers. As she chases away narrow and reductive feminist readings of the poet, Howe finds instead a radically powerful and true feminism at work in Dickinson, focusing the whole on that heart-stopping poem "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun."

A remarkable and passionate poet-on-poet engagement, My Emily Dickinson frees a great poet from the fetters of being read as a special female neurotic, and sets her against a fiery open sky where "Perception of an object means loosing and losing it...only Mutability certain." My Emily Dickinson won The Before Columbus Foundation Book Award. ... Read more

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Oddly composed, but with a few fine opals inside...
I have been pretty much obsessed with Emily Dickinson since 1980, and have enjoyed reading many treatments of her life and her poems, while enduring many other books about her. She is quite a mystery, and shall always remain so, becoming the kind of woman and poet that each generation seems to need. I did not like this author's prose style, which seemed to me to have many sentence fragments and many abrupt transitions which did not seem logical. However, it does contain one of the best meditations on Emily's literary and theological influences, including the preacher Jonathan Edwards, and the Brownings, and the Brontes, and Shakespeare. For that reason, it is worth reading if you care about the Belle of Amherst at all. I found myself drawn to her poetry from high school on, but over the decades, becoming much more fascinated with her life choices and experiences. We will never know for sure how many poems are autobiographical, how many actually describe her take on the experiences of her small but intense social circle, and how many are pure fiction. What an impact she has made on the literary world, by living the life of a fairly affluent New England spinster who did not get out much. That is endlessly fascinating to me. Unfortunately it is not the thrust of this volume. My recommendation is to start with Richard Sewell's huge biography of Emily from the 1970's. It covers the life AND the poetry in a reasonable and accessible manner. Some think Emily a secular nun, some think her a deeply closeted lesbian and/or incest victim, some feel she had many love affairs but was discrete about them. Some think her insane, some believe her to be the sanest of us all. Some find her an early feminist, and others see her as an oppressed woman. This book is one fellow female poet's appreciation of Emily's talents and circumstances. Wait another year and another scholar will present a different view. Emily left us 1,776 poems, give or take a few hidden in the text of letters, and someday there will be 1,776 books about her.

My Emily Dickinson
This book is not for the faint of intellect.It is a challenging book for most readers, I believe. Ms. Howe takes you on a poetic journey well worth taking.

Very Interesting Take
This book does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that expertly. It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured in their conception of poetry. This is more personal than a biography in that it is a writer's concern with Dickinson's place in history and what she was trying to do with her poetry. Howe does a wonderful job of trying to get into the poems through playing with language. It's a place to meet Dickinson at as she was a lover of games and words.

If you think you know Emily...
This is a serious and personal literary study of Dickinson's work by a scholar and fellow poet who appreciates both the art and the attitude of one of her American literary forebears.

Howe points out how Dickinson'spoetry has been overlooked in light of her character and biography. Itseems that in the 19th century, it was remarkable for a woman to be a poetat all, let alone write original, rebellious, and quite modern poetry.Hence, the work itself, though enjoyed by schoolchildren all over America,has been little understood.

Delving into Dickinson's reading lists, hernotes and letters, and analyzing a few poems, Howe explores the workings ofan intricate mind. She uncovers connections between Dickinson and theBrownings, the Brontes, and James Fenimore Cooper, and she shows howseemingly submissive, soft spoken poetic lines are actually rebellious andeven at times angry. What Howe does not do is confuse the image of"The Belle of Amhearst" with the vital workings of the mind ofthis remarkable woman.

This book is an enjoyable read filled with Howe'sadmiration for her artistic predecessor and written in straightforwardlanguage, not literary jargon--a tribute from one poet to another. Foranyone who enjoys Emily Dickinson's poetry, it is not to be missed. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 4512 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: UN COUP D'ÉTAT TOUJOURS ABOLIRA LE HASARD.(implicaciones sociales y políticas del resultado de elecciones presidenciales disputadas; Estados Unidos)(TT: A coup d'état will always win over ambivalence.)(TA: social and political implications of outcome of disputed presidential elections; United States)
Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2001
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 3Issue: 27Page: 52

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Con este libro, Eliot Weinberger ha llevado el ensayo a territorios inexplorados, en las fronteras entre la poesia y la narrativa; su unica exigencia es que la informacion aportada sea verificable. Weinberger ha creado un ensayo serial de caracter unico cuyas piezas individuales convergen en una increible variedad de temas: el viento, los rinocerontes, los santos catolicos, los aztecas, la antigua cultura china, los mandeos iranies, el desierto peruano, los tigres, Empedocles, Valmiki, la vida de Mahoma, el vortice o las estrellas ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on August 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2541 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Borges: la biblioteca parcial.(Jorge Luis Borges, autor; publicación de obra literaria)(TT: Borges: the partial library.)(TA: Jorge Luis Borges, author; publication of literary work)(Columna)
Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1999
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 1Issue: 8Page: 36

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This digital document is an article from Letras Libres, published by Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V. on November 1, 2001. The length of the article is 5305 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: NUEVA YORK: LIBERTAD DURADERA.(atentados terroristas contra Estados Unidos; fundamentalismo islámico como forma de revuelta juvenil)(TT: New York: lasting freedom.)(TA: terrorist attacks against United States; Islamic fundamentalism as form of youth rebellion)
Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2001
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 3Issue: 35Page: 98

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BOMB 93, Fall 2005, featuring: Interviews with Lionel Shriver by Jenefer Shute, Eliot Weinberger and Forrest Gander, Lincoln Perry by Ann Beattie, Jennifer Bartkett by Elizabeth Murray, Arturo Herrera by Josiah McElheny, Yinka Shonibare by Anthony Downey, Noah Baumbach by Jonathan Lethem, George Lewis by Jeff Parker, and David Rabe by Evangeline Morphos. Essays by Lucy Raven on Gedi Sibony, Lucy Raven on Adam Helms, Mimi Thompson on Stanley Whitney, Saul Ostrow on Jon Kessler, and Jan Estep on Clarence Morgan. Fiction & Poetry by Lynne Tillman, Peter Gizzi, Rikki Ducornet, Laurie Blauner, Anouar Benmalek, Elena Alexander, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tomaz Salamun, and Pierre Hauser. ... Read more