The Surrealism of Asturias
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I wonder who owns the rights to his books? I know you’re looking for a copy of your own to hold and love and write in and whatnot, but for people looking to read him, they can check their local library system.
Searching in my system on his name brought up 16 titles, almost half of which are in Spanish. But at least I could try reading the book now without doling out $100.
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My local library consortium (Western MA) has about the same. Exactly one copy each of Mirror of Lida Sal and Men of Maize and a few other titles, quite a few more of the Spanish language versions.
But you’re right. I want a reference copy. I want to pick apart the prose with needle nose pliers and see how it works. Requesting interlibrary loans of these books more than two or three times starts to make me feel silly.
Thanks for you comment!
Mike, I should probably just e-mail you directly, but I did a search for this on ABE books [http://www.abebooks.com] and found copies as cheap as $45. Still not a bargain, but better than Amazon.
Ooh! $45, you say? That just might be worth it.
::scrapes cash together from couch cushions::
Boon,
I don’t mean to one-up you but your translation is a bit off. “roben” is the subjunctive tense of robar, to steal. The construction deja que is usually followed by a subjunctive verb form.
It’s definitely a cryptic sentence, but what makes the most sense to me grammatically is:
At the land of Ilom, Gaspar Ilom allows the dream of his eyes to be stolen from him.
Heh. Thanks Nubo. I guess I was thinking of ‘ropa’.
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