Carmen Boullosa
Biographic Data
| ID | 90089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmen Boullosa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmen |
| FAMILY NAME | Boullosa |
| SIGNATURE | BOULLOSA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maseno University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Novelisteo
I prefer novels that constantly raise questions, provoking doubts and engendering a variety of perspectives in lieu of providing affirmations. Not novels that solve cases. On the riverbanks of my c
The Bones of the Imagination
A hare lends an ear—Enrique FierroWhat do the Hispanic writers gathered between these covers—the Argentines Ricardo Piglia and Sylvia Molloy, the Uruguayans Ida Vitale and Enrique Fierro, the Nicar
Seeing Is Believing
All my adult life, I’ve been nearsighted. Very myopic. So much so that glasses were totally useless. If I tried to use them with the correction I really needed, the walls would begin to curve, and
Heavens on Earth (an excerpt)
In Heavens on Earth, Carmen Boullosa imagines a postapocalyptic world where spoken and written language is banned, memories are obliterated, and history is erased. The novel is narrated through the voices of three translators—Hernando de Rivas, Estela Ruiz, and Lear—who live in three different eras. Narrating from colonial Mexico, Hernando begins to write the history of El Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco in Latin. Five hundred years later,…
A Narco History
"A Narco History, written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican, reviews the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to bring it to an end."--Page 4 of cover
The Vision
50 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY photo : jerry bauer The Vision Carmen Boullosa L ast night I dreamed that I was at my dining table with José Manuel Prieto, Eduardo Lago, Eduardo Mitre, and some Anglo-American English speakers—seated as we all had been a few hours earlier. We, the Spanish speakers, had settled in, seeking refuge at one end of the table. We were describing a friend to Lago, a friend who is now deceased, a writer the three of us had known…
The Vision
50 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY photo : jerry bauer The Vision Carmen Boullosa L ast night I dreamed that I was at my dining table with José Manuel Prieto, Eduardo Lago, Eduardo Mitre, and some Anglo-American English speakers—seated as we all had been a few hours earlier. We, the Spanish speakers, had settled in, seeking refuge at one end of the table. We were describing a friend to Lago, a friend who is now deceased, a writer the three of us had known…
Nueva York-Hawai
Nueva York-Hawai
Ver para creer
Retrato de mi cuerpo
Retrato de mi cuerpo
Mis cadáveres
Mis cadáveres
Frigidez y placer de mis ancestras
Frigidez y placer de mis ancestras
Los hijos de Freud (pastorela inconsciente)
Los hijos de Freud (pastorela inconsciente
Hermeneuta de los orinales
Hermeneuta de los orinales
De güerita a gitana
De güerita a gitana
Entrevistas
Two chapters fromDuerme (sleeping beauty)
Llanto
Llanto
Antes
Llanto
Llanto
Antes
Llanto
Llanto
Entrevistas
Two chapters fromDuerme (sleeping beauty)
De güerita a gitana
De güerita a gitana
Hermeneuta de los orinales
Hermeneuta de los orinales
Los hijos de Freud (pastorela inconsciente)
Los hijos de Freud (pastorela inconsciente
Frigidez y placer de mis ancestras
Frigidez y placer de mis ancestras
Ver para creer
Retrato de mi cuerpo
Retrato de mi cuerpo
Mis cadáveres
Mis cadáveres
Nueva York-Hawai
Nueva York-Hawai
The Vision
50 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY photo : jerry bauer The Vision Carmen Boullosa L ast night I dreamed that I was at my dining table with José Manuel Prieto, Eduardo Lago, Eduardo Mitre, and some Anglo-American English speakers—seated as we all had been a few hours earlier. We, the Spanish speakers, had settled in, seeking refuge at one end of the table. We were describing a friend to Lago, a friend who is now deceased, a writer the three of us had known…
The Vision
50 WORLD LITERATURE TODAY photo : jerry bauer The Vision Carmen Boullosa L ast night I dreamed that I was at my dining table with José Manuel Prieto, Eduardo Lago, Eduardo Mitre, and some Anglo-American English speakers—seated as we all had been a few hours earlier. We, the Spanish speakers, had settled in, seeking refuge at one end of the table. We were describing a friend to Lago, a friend who is now deceased, a writer the three of us had known…
A Narco History
"A Narco History, written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican, reviews the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to bring it to an end."--Page 4 of cover
Heavens on Earth (an excerpt)
In Heavens on Earth, Carmen Boullosa imagines a postapocalyptic world where spoken and written language is banned, memories are obliterated, and history is erased. The novel is narrated through the voices of three translators—Hernando de Rivas, Estela Ruiz, and Lear—who live in three different eras. Narrating from colonial Mexico, Hernando begins to write the history of El Colegio de la Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco in Latin. Five hundred years later,…
The Bones of the Imagination
A hare lends an ear—Enrique FierroWhat do the Hispanic writers gathered between these covers—the Argentines Ricardo Piglia and Sylvia Molloy, the Uruguayans Ida Vitale and Enrique Fierro, the Nicar
Seeing Is Believing
All my adult life, I’ve been nearsighted. Very myopic. So much so that glasses were totally useless. If I tried to use them with the correction I really needed, the walls would begin to curve, and
Novelisteo
I prefer novels that constantly raise questions, provoking doubts and engendering a variety of perspectives in lieu of providing affirmations. Not novels that solve cases. On the riverbanks of my c
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