José Rivera
1) La vorágine
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Publicada en 1924, La vor̀gine es una de las obras m̀s reveladoras del conflicto entre el cosmopolitismo y la naturaleza en Am̌rica Latina. Narrada por el joven poeta modernista Arturo Cova, La vor̀gine cuenta su huida de la civilizaci̤n, de Bogot̀, acompąado por su amante, Alicia, y su internamiento en los llanos hasta llegar a la selva, donde son testigos directos de como la fiebre del caucho ha llevado a la explotaci̤n brutal de ind̕genas...
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Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share penetrating insights and hilarious anecdotes in Peter Hanson’s Tales from the Script, the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants...
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Three new works from José Rivera, a writer known for his lush language, open heart, and stylistic flirting with the surreal. Boleros for the Disenchanted is the moving story of the playwrights own parents: their sweet courtship in 1950s Puerto Rico, and then forty years later in more difficult times in America. With Brainpeople, Rivera explores the troubled minds of three women in a post-apocalyptic setting who feast on a freshly slaughtered tiger....
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The first collection of plays by one of the most moving and astonishing writers of the last 15 years. Though critics reflexively class his work as "magical realism," Rivera's extravagant, original imagery always serves to illuminate the gritty realities and touching longings of our daily lives. Also includes: Each Day Dies with Sleep and Cloud Tectonics.
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Surrealism, magic realism and expressionism are the hallmarks of Jose Rivera's influential body of work. This new volume collects the author's plays written in the past five years, including References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot, Sueño and Sonnets for an Old Century, the author's most recent work, which recently premiered in Los Angeles.
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Academy Award nominee Jose Rivera chronicles the story of a young woman's struggle to find an identity apart from the two men in her life: her father and her husband. Written in Rivera's typical satiric and super realistic style, this fantastical tragic-comedy leaps from coast to coast and from one outrageous moment to the next.