San Juan : Memoir of a City / Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá ; translated by Peter Grandbois ; foreword by Antonio Skármeta.
Series The Americas SerEditor: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2007Fecha de copyright: ©2007Descripción: 1 online resource (189 pages)Tipo de contenido:- text
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- 917.295
- F1981 .S2 R56913 2007
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San Juan: Memoir of a City conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo RodrÃguez Juliá. No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture.
In the allusive cityscape he recreates, RodrÃguez Juliá invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own novels. On the most tangible level, the city is a place of cabarets and cockfighting clubs, flâneurs and beach bums, smoke-filled bars and honking automobiles. Poised between a colonial past and a commercial future, the San Juan he portrays feels at times perilously close to the pitfalls of modernization. Tenement houses and fading mansions yield to strip malls and Tastee Freezes; asphalt hems in jacarandas and palm trees. "In Puerto Rico," he muses, "life is not simply cruel, it is also busy erasing our tracks." Through this bookâe"available here in English for the first timeâe"RodrÃguez Juliá resists that erasure, thoughtfully etching a palimpsest that preserves images of the city where he grew up and rejoicing in the one where he still lives. Best Books for Regional General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians and the Public Library Association
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1. Ubi Sunt -- 2. Avenida del Progreso, My Champs Elysées -- 3. A Long and Caribbean Street -- 4. In Search of the City of Letters -- 5. Toward the Martín Peña Canal -- 6. Santurce, Our Simulacrum of the Big City -- 7. Road to the Bohemian Lights -- 8. La Puerta de Tierra -- 9. A Clear Space, a Vigil for Poets -- 10.From Borinquen Park It Is One Step to Villa Palmeras -- 11. The Arc of Isla Verde -- 12.The City and the Forest -- 13.The Bridge -- Glossary of Names -- Glossary of Terms -- Works Cited.
San Juan: Memoir of a City conducts readers through Puerto Rico's capital, guided by one of its most graceful and reflective writers, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. No mere sightseeing tour, this is culture through immersion, a circuit of San Juan's historical and intellectual vistas as well as its architecture. In the allusive cityscape he recreates, Rodríguez Juliá invokes the ghosts of his childhood, of San Juan's elder literati, and of characters from his own novels. On the most tangible level, the city is a place of cabarets and cockfighting clubs, flâneurs and beach bums, smoke-filled bars and honking automobiles. Poised between a colonial past and a commercial future, the San Juan he portrays feels at times perilously close to the pitfalls of modernization. Tenement houses and fading mansions yield to strip malls and Tastee Freezes; asphalt hems in jacarandas and palm trees. "In Puerto Rico," he muses, "life is not simply cruel, it is also busy erasing our tracks." Through this book--available here in English for the first time--Rodríguez Juliá resists that erasure, thoughtfully etching a palimpsest that preserves images of the city where he grew up and rejoicing in the one where he still lives. Best Books for Regional General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians and the Public Library Association
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Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico. Among his many books are La renuncia del héroe Baltasar (1974, translated into English in 1997 as The Renunciation ), El entierro de Cortijo (1983, published in a bilingual edition in 2004 as Cortijo's Wake ), La noche oscura del Niño Avilés (1984), and Sol de medianoche (1999).Peter Grandbois is assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento.