Remember The Scorpion Isaac Goldemberg by Isaac Goldemberg 9781939419316, 9781939419194, 193941931X, 1939419190 instant download after payment.

ISAAC GOLDEMBERG, a longtime resident of New York City, is an internationally recognized and award-winning writer and poet. In 1976 he published The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner—a classic among major Latin American novels which has gone through several editions in Spanish, French, English and Hebrew, and which in 2001 was selected by an international panel of critics—convened by the Yiddish Book Center—as one of the 100 greatest Jewish books of the past 150 years. Play by Play and El nombre del padre, two other novels, are available in Spanish, French, and Italian. He has also published several books of poetry: Hombre de paso (Just Passing Through), Los autorretratos y las máscaras (Self-Portraits and Masks), Peruvian blues, which received the Peruvian PEN Club Poetry Award for 2001, Libro de las transformaciones, and Diálogos conmigo y mis otros, among others. He is also the author of two plays: Hotel AmériKKa (published in Spanish and English), and Golpe de gracia, for which he received the prestigious Premio Estival de Teatro 2003.

When reflecting on issues of identity in twentieth-century Peruvian literature, José María Arguedas (1911–1969) and Isaac Goldemberg come to mind. Arguedas addressed head-on the uneasy linkages between European and local indigenous cultures; Goldemberg has added Jewish traditions to that already conflictive relationship. Although in both his prose and his poetry, he mingles the sounds of the “shofar” and the “quena,” a middle ground remains as elusive as any attempt to articulate in unison both Spanish and Quechua as conveyors of radically different views of the world.