![]() ![]() Cristina Rivera Garza, a Mexican writer and MacArthur genius grant winner, writes stories that help her "share the unintelligible," as she puts it in the introduction to her New and Selected Stories, which spans over 30 years of her career. He makes comedy of readers' efforts to guess what might be coming, or to figure out what any of it means. Juan Emar, a cult-favorite Chilean writer from the early 20th century who was loathed by critics and readers alike in his lifetime, sends the characters of his novel Yesterday racing from one surreal surprise to the next. Three books by Latin American writers new in translation - Yesterday, Family Album and New and Selected Stories - reward this approach, though in very different ways. If a book seems too strange to decode, stop decoding: Just let it carry you along. He trusted his students to tackle, at times, baffling material - and taught us a new way of reading, one I'd compare to getting in a lazy river at a water park. In high school, I had the exceptional fortune of taking a Spanish-language literature class with a teacher who had both a tremendous breadth of knowledge and highly challenging literary taste. ![]()
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