Spanish Portuguese lit month the 2024 Edition

 

JULY 2024 

Well, I hadn’t intended to do a Spanish Portuguese lit month this year. I started it with Richard of the much-missed blog Caravana de recuerdos .We started it as Spanish lit month in 2010 on and off, a few years after it was expanded to include literature translated from Portuguese.So when Jacqui asked if I was I took a few seconds and a look at the TBR and said yes it would be great to do it again this July. I know it is short notice, and I am thinking of two things: review a book from Charco Press as they have brought out so many great books translated from Spanish and Portuguese from around Latin America. Then, the last week of July, I would love people to review a book by the Portuguese writer Antonio Lobo Antunes.

Here is the list of his books from Wiki; most of them have been translated to English. His name is often on the list of potential Nobel winners. He looks at the heart of his country’s history and dark past, warts and all.

• Memória de Elefante (1979). Elephant’s Memory
• Os Cus de Judas (1979). Translated by Elizabeth Lowe as South of Nowhere (1983); and later by Margaret Jull Costa as The Land at the End of the World (2011).
• Conhecimento do Inferno (1980). Knowledge of Hell, trans. Clifford E. Landers (2008).
• Explicação dos Pássaros (1981). An Explanation of the Birds, trans. Richard Zenith (1991).
• Fado Alexandrino (1983). Fado Alexandrino, trans. Gregory Rabassa (1990).
• Auto dos Danados (1985). Act of the Damned, trans. Richard Zenith (1993).
• As Naus (1988). The Return of the Caravels, trans. Gregory Rabassa (2003).
• Tratado das Paixões da Alma (1990). Treatise on the Passions of the Heart, first section translated by Richard Zenith (1994).
• A Ordem Natural das Coisas (1992). The Natural Order of Things, trans. Richard Zenith (2001).
• A Morte de Carlos Gardel (1994). The Death of Carlos Gardel
• O Manual dos Inquisidores (1996). The Inquisitors’ Manual, trans. Richard Zenith (2004).
• O Esplendor de Portugal (1997). The Splendor of Portugal, trans. Rhett McNeil (2011).
• Exortação aos Crocodilos (1999). Warning to the Crocodiles, trans. Karen Sotelino (2021).
• Não Entres Tão Depressa Nessa Noite Escura (2000). Don’t Enter That Dark Night So Fast
• Que Farei Quando Tudo Arde? (2001). What Can I Do When Everything’s on Fire?, trans. Gregory Rabassa (2008).
• Boa Tarde às Coisas Aqui em Baixo (2003). Good Evening to the Things From Here Below
• Eu Hei-de Amar uma Pedra (2004). I Shall Love a Stone
• Ontem Não te vi em Babilónia (2006). Didn’t See You in Babylon Yesterday
• O Meu Nome é Legião (2007). My Name Is Legion
• O Arquipélago da Insónia (2008). Archipelago of Insomnia
• Que Cavalos São Aqueles Que Fazem Sombra no Mar? (2009). What Horses Are Those That Make Shade On The Sea?
• Sôbolos Rios Que Vão (2010). By the Rivers of Babylon, trans. Margaret Jull Costa (2023).
• Comissão das Lágrimas (2011). Commission of Tears, trans. Elizabeth Lowe (2024).
• Não é Meia-Noite quem quer (2012).
• Caminha Como Numa Casa em Chamas (2014).
• Da Natureza dos Deuses (2015).
• Para Aquela que Está Sentada no Escuro à Minha Espera (2016).
• Até Que as Pedras Se Tornem Mais Leves Que a Água (2016). Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water, trans. Jeffe Love (2019).

I have reviewed three of his novels and have several others on my TBR . I will try to review another book from Portugal to take my total of reviews from there to 10, which seems poor. I look forward to seeing what books from around the world everyone reads I have done a few images for the month the one at the top and the two below.

Edited in Prisma app with Watercolor

Edited in Prisma app with Watercolor