César Ferreira

Biographic Data

ID3599125
NAMECésar Ferreira
GIVEN NAMESCésar
FAMILY NAMEFerreira
SIGNATUREFERREIRA C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
ORCID0000-0003-3686-1497
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS51
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT51
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Los nombres de Feliza by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (review)

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2025

  • Escala

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2024

  • Le dedico mi silencio by Mario Vargas Llosa (review)

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2024

    Reviewed by: Le dedico mi silencio by Mario Vargas Llosa César Ferreira MARIO VARGAS LLOSA Le dedico mi silencio New York. Madrid. Alfaguara. 2023. 312 pages. IN LE DEDICO MI SILENCIO, Mario Vargas Llosa returns to his native Peru to tell the story of Toño Azpilcueta, a school-teacher, journalist, and second-rate intellectual who leads a mediocre life in Lima. Since his youth, Toño has been a fervent aficionado of música criolla, or Peruvian creo…

  • En agosto nos vemos by Gabriel García Márquez (review)

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2024

  • Cien cuyes by Gustavo Rodríguez (review)

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2023

    Reviewed by: Cien cuyes by Gustavo Rodríguez César Ferreira GUSTAVO RODRÍGUEZ Cien cuyes Lima. Alfaguara. 2023. 258 pages. IN EARLY 2023 Gustavo Rodríguez's latest novel, Cien cuyes, was awarded Spain's coveted Premio Alfaguara de Novela. Cien cuyes tells the story of Eufrasia Vela, a middle-aged woman from humble origins who cares for senior citizens in upper-class neighborhoods in Lima, Peru. Eufrasia is a migrant from northern Peru as well as …

  • País de Jauja by Edgardo Rivera Martínez

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2023

    Reviewed by: País de Jauja by Edgardo Rivera Martínez César Ferreira EDGARDO RIVERA MARTÍNEZ País de Jauja Lima. Alfaguara. 2022. 640 pages. EDGARDO RIVERA MARTÍNEZ'S first novel, País de Jauja, received immediate critical acclaim when it was published in Peru in 1993. Some thirty years later, it is considered a canonical work in Peruvian letters. This edición definitiva of País de Jauja not only underscores the author's artistic excellence; it i…

  • El año del viento by Karina Pacheco Medrano

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2022

    Reviewed by: El año del viento by Karina Pacheco Medrano César Ferreira Karina Pacheco Medrano El año del viento Lima. Seix Barral. 2021. 357 pages. A PROLIFIC FICTION writer, Karina Pacheco Medrano (b. 1969, Cuzco, Peru) is an important name in present-day Peruvian letters. The author of acclaimed novels such as La voluntad del molle (2006) and [End Page 78] Las orillas del aire (2017), El año del viento is Pacheco Medrano's sixth novel. It tell…

  • La mirada quieta (de Pérez Galdós) by Mario Vargas Llosa

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2022

    Reviewed by: La mirada quieta (de Pérez Galdós) by Mario Vargas Llosa César Ferreira Mario Vargas Llosa La mirada quieta (de Pérez Galdós) Madrid. Alfaguara. 2022. 320 pages. THROUGHOUT HIS outstanding career as a fiction writer, Mario Vargas Llosa has also distinguished himself as a notable literary critic. His books on Gabriel García Márquez, José María Arguedas, and Juan Carlos Onetti, for example, offer a comprehensive overview on the works o…

  • Mario Vargas LlosaMedio siglo con Borges

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2021

    and Poetics (4th ed.) notes, it was Théodore de Banville’s “popular handbook Petit traité de poésie française, [that gave rise to] the mistaken belief that the villanelle was an antique form,” a belief that “persisted tenaciously throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” In some contexts, the misapprehension persists: see, for example, the claims made on Poetica, aired regularly until somewhat recently on Australia’s national broadcast …

  • The Wind Traveler by Alonso Cueto

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2021

    BOOKS IN REVIEW Alonso Cueto The Wind Traveler Trans. Frank Wynne & Jessie Méndez Sayer. Austin. University of Texas Press. 2020. 232 pages. THE WIND TRAVELER is the latest novel to appear in English by Alonso Cueto, an author known for his Redención trilogy about the war between the Peruvian State and the Shining Path in the 1980s and 1990s. The first volume of Cueto’s trilogy, The Blue Hour (2005), considered one of the best novels on the subje…

  • Mario Vargas LlosaTiempos recios

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2020

    Spirits hum through the book, with many of the poems acting as testament to singular lives taken by war, famine, greed, disaster. The pages are filled with imaginative language, but as one delves deeper into each poem, it becomes clear that the most striking lines are often just so because they exist simultaneously as impossible and true—not imagined at all but actualities that take on layered meaning in the context of the broader work and Forché…

  • Berta Isla by Javier Marías

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2018

    Paolo Maurensig Theory of Shadows Trans. Anne Milano Appel. New York. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018. 179 pages Paolo Maurensig’s Theory of Shadows uses the game of chess as a vehicle to meditate on the Holocaust. Its central character is the infamous Alexandrovich Alekhine, a grand master who collaborated with the Nazis. This novel of ideas opens in spring 1946, with Alekhine living at the Hotel do Parque in Estoril, Portugal, just as the Nurem…

  • La última hermana

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2017

    Camila), a twenty-five-year-old woman who has a love relationship with two people of different sex. More than a story of lesbian love, this is a story of bisexual love. Despite its playful and funny tone, behind the narrator’s voice, many doubts come to the fore along with the fear and darkness that surround a life being played in two different fields. The fact that humor is probably hiding many tears is what makes the novel honest and especially…

  • Cinco esquinas

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2016

    The demise of the Alpine glacier to which Hintermeier has devoted his scholarly life palpably demonstrates that today’s consumerist humans certainly do not live in such accord. What to do? His work at the institute thus essentially over, Zeno gamely follows a colleague’s suggestion to give lectures to tourists traveling to the Antarctic. Now in his fourth year on the MS Hansen, he has just been elevated to expedition leader, and this is where he …

  • Remember the Scorpion by Isaac Goldemberg

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2016

    tumultuous life of Caravaggio, the death of Anne Boleyn, and the erotic escapades of notorious conquistador Hernán Cortés are revised and woven into an intricate, inextricable tapestry. With apparent effortlessness , Enrigue fuses together ostensibly discordant narratives, fashioning a riveting, hilarious, and insightful romp. Set during the Counter Reformation and framed by a duel-like game of pallacorda —akin to tennis—between Italian maestro C…

  • Consideraciones en torno a la narrativa de Edgardo Rivera Martínez

    Open AccessCésar FerreiraARTICLELetras (Lima2015

    El presente artículo examina el universo narrativo de Edgardo Rivera Martínez. En las letras peruanas contemporáneas, Rivera Martínez es dueño de un universo ficcional con matices propios en el cual uno desus ejes centrales plantea la necesidad de un diálogo que permita la creación de un nuevo mestizaje en la sociedad peruana. La necesidad de este nuevo mestizaje se forja a través de personajes que se preguntanpermanentemente por su identidad y s…

  • Beings

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2015

    62 WLT JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 2015 world literature in review As a reader, I was unable to put this collection down. I was enchanted from the first line—“So, have you made your mind up yet?”—of Lane Ashfeldt’s first story, “The Boat Trip.” I was captivated, and the author kept me captivated until the last line of the last tale, “Outer Banks Riptide”: “It is late into the night, that time after the moon is done when the stars burn brighter than ever, m…

  • Los cuentos de la peste by Mario Vargas Llosa

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2015

    photographs of the mining days” or when Ingrid Bergman “wrestles the big cone of sweating roses into submission.” Perhaps more tantalizing are the interwoven but undeveloped references to writers like John Clare and Roberto Bolaño and to a painting at a museum in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, signs that Sinclair is artist enough to be comfortable with irresolution. Robert Murray Davis University of Oklahoma Mario Vargas Llosa. Los cuentos de la peste.…

  • Dos mundos literarios

    César Ferreira, Domnita DumitrescuARTICLEHispania2014

    Reviewed by: Dos mundos literarios: España e Hispanoamérica, siglos XX y XXI by Germán D. Carrillo César Ferreira and Domnita Dumitrescu Carrillo, Germán D . Dos mundos literarios: España e Hispanoamérica, siglos XX y XXI. Bogotá : Net Educativa , 2013 . Pp. 209 . ISBN 978-9-584-63236-4 . Dos mundos literarios: España e Hispanoamérica, siglos XX y XXI, de Germán Carrillo, es un libro que analiza en siete capítulos la obra de importantes autores h…

  • The Closed Hand

    César FerreiraARTICLEHispania2014

    Reviewed by: The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature by Rebecca Riger Tsurumi César Ferreira Riger Tsurumi, Rebecca. The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2012. Pp. 313. ISBN 978-1-55753-607-5. The theme of The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature is the role of Japanese culture in contemporary Peruvian letters. Rebecca Riger Tsu…

  • Flores amarillas by Ral Tola

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2014

    reviews is “a way back” from homelessness. Szilasi’s chief characters are convinced that it is not so, that with very few exceptions the road leads further down, to complete degradation and physical annihilation. A harmadik híd is a rare stylistic achievement integrating several modes of speech: apart from the stories of the two main speakers (the longest one is told at an old schoolmate’s booze-soaked reunion), the text is interspersed with shor…

  • Un asunto sentimental by Jorge Eduardo Benavides

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2014

    Ulrich Baer Beggar’s Chicken: Stories from Shanghai Earnshaw Books Humorous and candid, Ulrich Baer’s first book of fiction gives the reader an experience of Shanghai most tourists never encounter. From the girl who wore her sister’s pants for a day to the love-struck American student begging to stay in the city, these seven short stories portray people’s daily experiences in the midst of a rapidly changing city. Robert Antoni As Flies to Whatles…

  • The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2014

    56 worldliteraturetoday.org reviews finds comfort in the company of her friends as they steal guavas and try to avoid the harsh world of adults or as a teenager who, after years living in the United States, has become jaded and cynical, Darling speaks to us with a voice that is direct, powerful , and believable. On the return of her father, ravaged by HIV/AIDS after living in South Africa, Darling says: “Father comes home after many years of forg…

  • Cuerpo plural

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2010

    the excesses of freedom?imagined as more and more stuff without the hindrance of responsibility?to the constrictions of enclosure typifies Dionne Brand at her best: impas sioned politics and imaginative,pas sionate poetry. Jim Hannan LeMoyne College Cuerpo plural:Antologia de lapoesia hispanoamericana contempor?nea. Gustavo Guerrero, ed. Valencia / Madrid. Pre-Textos / Instituto Cer vantes. 2010. 616 pages + dvd. 25. isbn978-84-92913-17-6 Gustavo…

  • Al pie del Támesis by Mario Vargas Llosa

    César FerreiraARTICLEWorld Literature Today2009

    context?Segel emphasizes the main characteristic of Eastern European literatures: its politicization. Starting with the end of World War II, litera ture across Eastern Europe has been a response to communist dictator ship, as much as in the last twenty years it examines the intricacies of societies in transition and the chal lenges of postcommunism. The finalchapters, "Glimpses of theOther World: America through Eastern European Eyes" and the "Po…