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Books by Rhett Mcneil
  | | Voyage to India (Portuguese Literature) by Goncalo M. Tavares, Rhett Mcneil Paperback, 494 Pages, Published 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62897-160-6, ISBN: 1-62897-160-6 ""A Voyage to India" is the story of Bloom, our hero, as he makes his way from Lisbon to India in a decidedly non-heroic age. Gone are the galleons, gone is god; so too the swords of the swashbuckler and sacerdotal certainty. In such an era, where is wisdom to be found? Bloom ever deliberate, ever longwinded takes his time getting to India, stopping first in London, then Paris and elsewhere in Europe, making friends, encountering enemies ..." |
 | | A Man Klaus Klump: Klaus Klump: A Man (Portuguese Literature Series) by Rhett Mcneil, Goncalo M. Tavares, Gonocalo M. Tavares, GonAlo M. Tavares Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62897-034-0, ISBN: 1-62897-034-0 "The final installment in Gon?alo M. Tavares's "Kingdom" cycle to be translated into English, "Klaus Klump: A Man" is a harrowing portrait of a man without values, making his way through a world almost as immoral. Klaus takes care of the family business; he doesn't feel fear, hunger, or love. Klaus plays a game, and this game and its object consist of one thing: making money. No matter who you are, Klaus thinks, there is only one thing o ..." |
 | | Free City by Joao Almino, Rhett Mcneil Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2013 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-900-6, ISBN: 1-56478-900-4 "Free City is master storyteller João Almino’s third novel to focus on the city of Brasília, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with their vested interests, each with new reasons for spinning ..." |
 | | Stories (Brazilian Literature Series) by Rhett Mcneil, Joaquim Machado, Kjell Askildsen, Machado De Assis Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 2014 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-899-3, ISBN: 1-56478-899-7 "Featuring ten stories never before translated, dating from 1878 to 1886 (regarded as Joaquim Machado de Assis’s most radically experimental period), this selection of short fiction by Brazil’s greatest author ranges in tone from elegiac and philosophical to impishly ironic. Including the author’s classic essay on world literature–also appearing in English for the first time–and with pieces chosen from his vast body of work for their pla ..." |
 | | Joseph Walser's Machine (Portuguese Literature Series) by Gonçalo M. Tavares, Rhett Mcneil, Gonã§Alo Tavares Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2012 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-677-7, ISBN: 1-56478-677-3 "“Tavares has no right to be writing so well at the age of 35. One feels like punching him!”—José Saramago Continuing Tavares’s award-winning “Kingdom” series (begun in Jerusalem, winner of the Saramago Prize), Joseph Walser’s Machine recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns. Routine humiliation at a factory; routine maintenance of the world’s most esoteric collection; and the most important routine of all: the operation of a mys ..." |
 | | The Splendor of Portugal(1st Edition) (Portuguese Literature Series) by António Lobo Antunes, Rhett Mcneil Paperback, 535 Pages, Published 2011 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-423-0, ISBN: 1-56478-423-1 "From the author The New Yorker hails as “one of the most skillful psychological portraitists writing anywhere.” The Splendor of Portugal’s four narrators are members of a once well-to-do family whose plantation was lost in the Angolan War of Independence; the matriarch of this unhappiest of clans and her three adult children speak in a nightmarish, remorseless gush to give us the details of their grotesque family life. Like a c ..." |
 | | The Enigma of Spring Enigmas of Spring (Brazilian Literature) by Joao Almino, Rhett Mcneil Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-62897-131-6, ISBN: 1-62897-131-2 "Majnun lives his life online in his grandparents' well-appointed home in the Brazilian capital. No school, no work--just bored in Brasilia. After falling in love with a married woman, however, he flees to Madrid with friends, intent on, well . . . something. Writing a historical novel about medieval Spain? Or perhaps converting to Islam and heading to North Africa? As Majnun floats through the crowds of Catholics, through encounters wit ..." |
 | | Warning to the Crocodiles (Portuguese Literature) by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Rhett Mcneil Paperback, 377 Pages, Published 2017 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-943150-13-7, ISBN: 1-943150-13-3 "Set in the aftermath of the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes’s Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal. Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture of communists, the novel details the clandestine activities of an extreme right-win ..." |
 | | Faction by Juan Filloy, Brendan Riley, Rhett Mcneil Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2016 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-730-9, ISBN: 1-56478-730-3 "Faction tells the story of seven erudite, homeless, and semi-incompetent radicals traveling from city to city in an attempt to foment a revolution.The second of Argentinean eccentric Juan Filloy's novels to be translated into English—after Op Oloop—Faction tells the story of seven erudite, homeless, and semi-incompetent radicals traveling from city to city in an attempt to foment a revolution: conspiring with striking workers, setting ..." |
 | | The No World Concerto by A. G. Porta, Rhett Mcneil, Brendan Riley Paperback, 372 Pages, Published 2013 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-675-3, ISBN: 1-56478-675-7 "Hailed by Spain’s Revista Quimera as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, alongside Bolaño’s 2666, Vila-Matas’s Bartleby & Co., and Marías’s Your Face Tomorrow.The many layers of The No World Concerto center around an old screenwriter, holed up in a shabby hotel in order to write a screenplay about his lover, a young piano prodigy who wants in turn to give up music and become a writer. From these meager elemen ..." |
 | | Reading is Walking the Encyclopedia Series by Tavares, Gonçalo M, McNeil, Rhett Paperback, 430 Pages, Published 2019 by Quantum Prose ISBN-13: 978-0-9973014-2-7, ISBN: 0-9973014-2-2 |
 | | No Variations(1st Edition) Journal of an Unfinished Novel (Argentinian Literature Series) by Luis Chitarroni, Darren Koolman Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2013 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-729-3, ISBN: 1-56478-729-X |
 | | No World Concerto (Spanish Literature Series) by Antoni Garcaia Porta, Darren Koolman, Rhett Mcneil Paperback, 339 Pages, Published 2013 by Dalkey Archive Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-861-0, ISBN: 1-56478-861-X "A prismatic and erotic novel of the intersection of multiple worlds, this is the first novel by Roberto Bolano’s early writing partner A. G. Porta to be translated into English. Hailed by Spain’s Revista Quimera as one of the top ten Spanish-language novels of the decade, alongside Bolano’s 2666, Vila-Matas’s Bartleby & Co., and Marías’s Your Face Tomorrow, the many layers of The No World Concerto center around an old screenwriter, hole ..." |
 | | Escape Attempt by Miguel-Ángel Hernández, Rhett Mcneil, Miguel- Hernã¡Ndez Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2016 by Hispabooks ISBN-13: 978-84-943658-7-4, ISBN: 84-943658-7-8 ""Intelligent fiction that seems first of all to be about the world of contemporary art, but that in reality is about the exploitation of human beings and art's many repudiations of its ideals in the face of money's capacity for corruption. . . . Miguel Angel Hernandez has brought fresh air with a highbrow, intelligent and entertaining novel." J.M. Pozuelo Yvancos, "ABC""Attractive and accomplished in its composition, it is its content t ..." |