Lunatics, lovers & poets
Subtitle: twelve stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare
By: edited by Daniel Hahn & Margarita Valencia ; [introduced by Salman Rushdie]
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781908276780
Subjects: Short stories; Translations into English; Spanish Short stories
Other titles: Lunatics, lovers and poets; Twelve stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare
Description: To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes, six English-speaking authors and six Spanish-speaking authors have collected 12 original and previously unpublished stories as their tribute to the international influence of these two giants of world literature. An introduction by Salman Rushdie explores the legacy of the two men in contemporary fiction.
Notes: "A Hay Festival Anthology"--Page [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Don Quixote and the ambuiguity of reading  -- Ben Okri; title: Mir Aslam of Kolachi  -- Kamila Shamsie; title: The dogs of war  -- Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translator: Anne McLean; title: Coriolanus  -- Yuri Herrera ; translator: Lisa Dillman; title: Glass  -- Nell Leyshon; title: Opening windows  -- Marcos Giralt Torrente ; translator: Samantha Schnee; title: The piano bar  -- Hisham Matar; title: The secret life of Shakespeareans; title: Soledad Puértolas ; translator: Rosalind Harvey --; title: Egyptian puppet  -- Vicente Molina Foix ; translator: Frank Wynne; title: The glass woman  -- Deborah Levy; title: The anthology massacre  -- Rhidian Brook; title: Shakespeare, New Mexico -- Valeria Luiselli ; translator: Christiana MacSweeney.