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Navona ha publicado la definitiva edición del clásico de Alejandro Dumas, El conde de Montecristo (1844); este lanzamiento es ahora considerado en el mundo de libros como “un gran acontecimiento literario europeo” en la lengua española, por razones muy justas.
In Nineveh, Henrietta Rose-Innes has produced a new novel hailed as a “gripping, thrilling allegory of a troubled nation... executed with wit, panache, precision and something” that can only be called “wounded love for the country the author calls her home.”
Zadie Smith presents her fifth novel, Swing Time, a fluid meditation, by way of a cross-racial relationship between two female protagonists, on race, class, geopolitics, dance, storytelling, and history as they manifest in London, New York, and West Africa.
In Forget English! Aamir Mufti scrutinizes the claims made on behalf of world literature, arguing that at the center of its very possibility as a borderless, egalitarian and global body of writings remains the dominance of English — as a literary language, a cultural system of international reach, and the undisputed vernacular of global capitalism.
In Beyond Bolaño, Hector Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era, calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation that affirm the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature.
In Readings, Gayatri Spivak elaborates a utopian vision for the kind of deep and investigative reading that can develop a will for peaceful social justice in coming generations.
