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User1865345

02:33

‘Each time I work on a novel, I endure the questions, I live inside them’: Han Kang’s Nobel lecture

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verbose

04:01

@Bookworm Who is Veronica in the HNQ?

bobble

04:45

> I went into One Day All This Will Be Yours with just a glance at the blurb: time-traveller trying to prevent time-travel war. It turned out great. The narrator is engaging and conversational. An incredible amount of novelty is squeezed out of time-travel simply by taking the “time-travel war” concept seriously. I’m a lifelong speculative fiction fan. The use of time travel was still novel. On an emotional and plot level, this book portrays the futility and waste of war in a moving and direct manner without resorting to gore. Did this paragraph intrigue you? Go get the novella now!

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Bookworm

08:43

Q: Why are "La Tambora" and "La Serpentina" left untranslated in this English version of Rulfo's "We're very poor"?

I've been reading George D. Schade's English translation of Juan Rulfo's The Burning Plain and Other Stories, which is freely available to borrow from the Internet Archive. In the story "We're very poor", there are a couple of characters whose nicknames are left in Spanish rather than being trans...

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Clara Díaz Sanchez

10:33

@Bookworm That's the 99th Spanish-language question. Just one more needed to take it to 100!

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Tsundoku

14:12

@ClaraDíazSanchez The Mistral wind will deposit a few more questions on the site.

Rand al'Thor

14:27

@ClaraDíazSanchez You should post a question just to automatically award yourself the tag badge :-) (even though the badge is for answers - odd how that works, isn't it)

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Bookworm

18:50

Q: Who was Blanca Subercaseaux, to whom Gabriela Mistral dedicated the poem Encargo a Blanca?

Many of Gabriela Mistral's poems are dedicated to specific persons. These are often authors who can be looked up on the Spanish Wikipedia, such as Emma Godoy, Max Daireaux, Francis de Miomandre, José Vasconcelos and Fryda Shultz de Mantovani. However, the poem Encargo a Blanca is not only dedicat...