There was nothing since 2005, since the release of English-American literature from 1940 to today Claude Cymerman and Claude Fell (Nathan, 2001) course exhausted, never reprinted.
The thing is repaired this fall since just published this wonderful Dictionary of Hispanic Literature (Spain and Latin America) in the collection Bouquin Robert Laffont. A true bible 17,000 entries directed by Jordi Bonell which collects and organizes information on these literatures to the Hispanic writers born in 1962, the ultra-contemporary literature is certainly present (including the authors that we just discovered in France - I think, for example, Daniel Sada).
The dictionary also by the beautiful thematic sections on the different histories of literature from Central and South America, as well as on literary movements and major texts (again there are synthetic reviews on contemporary classics up at Bolano 2666). So here we are with
an indispensable tool and ultimately very rare in the publishing landscape. The dictionaries offer the PUF (India, Japan, China, Brazil ...) have the merit to exist but are extracts from the enormous literature Universal Dictionary of 1994 which did the spotlight on contemporary and History of American Literature 1939-1989 Pierre-Yves Pétillon (Fayard, 1992 and 2003) would have needed a serious update.
literature is global, but it takes time to synthesize and determine the knowledge ...
You retort that there is Internet and Wikipedia ... sure, but with this kind of book that is a whole literature that I want to reach, it as if all these novels and poems were already a little in my library. Maybe it's the idea of portable literature.
The thing is repaired this fall since just published this wonderful Dictionary of Hispanic Literature (Spain and Latin America) in the collection Bouquin Robert Laffont. A true bible 17,000 entries directed by Jordi Bonell which collects and organizes information on these literatures to the Hispanic writers born in 1962, the ultra-contemporary literature is certainly present (including the authors that we just discovered in France - I think, for example, Daniel Sada).
The dictionary also by the beautiful thematic sections on the different histories of literature from Central and South America, as well as on literary movements and major texts (again there are synthetic reviews on contemporary classics up at Bolano 2666). So here we are with
an indispensable tool and ultimately very rare in the publishing landscape. The dictionaries offer the PUF (India, Japan, China, Brazil ...) have the merit to exist but are extracts from the enormous literature Universal Dictionary of 1994 which did the spotlight on contemporary and History of American Literature 1939-1989 Pierre-Yves Pétillon (Fayard, 1992 and 2003) would have needed a serious update.
literature is global, but it takes time to synthesize and determine the knowledge ...
You retort that there is Internet and Wikipedia ... sure, but with this kind of book that is a whole literature that I want to reach, it as if all these novels and poems were already a little in my library. Maybe it's the idea of portable literature.
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