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ISSUE EIGHT:
ISBN 1-928863-12-4

For the first time in one volume, THE READING ROOM presents to an American public the greats of contemporary Spanish literature. Juan Benet, Juan Goytisolo, Juan Marsé, Jorge Semprún, Ángel Vázquez, and Manuel Fernández Montesinos (the nephew of Federico García Lorca) were children during the Spanish Civil War, and their sensibility is permeated with the memory of that war. In their stylistic innovations, literary rebelliousness and opposition to the Franco era, their work has been the formative model for the next generation of writers in contemporary Spain.

Jorge Semprún and Enrique Krauze reflect on Jewish philosophical language, genius and sorrows, while Barbara Probst Solomon chronicles the influence of the Hispano-Judaic mind on Saul Bellow.

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past and present issues:

Madinson Smartt Bell · Saul Bellow · Binnie Kirshenbaum · Stanley Crouch · Elizabeth Gaffney · Juan Goytisolo · Don L. Maggin · Joseph Roth · Daphne Merkin · Amos Oz · Larry Rivers · Fanny Rubio · José Saramago · Barbara Probs Solomon · Maria Solomon · Carl Watson · Conversations: Saul Bellow · Larry Rivers · John Updike Art Portfolios: William Anthony · Richard Artshwager · Marcel Duchamp · Gonzalo Torné · Eugeen Van Mieghem

ISSUE SEVEN:
ISBN 1-928863-12-4

This issue features two superb international firsts: the debut publication in the English language of Journal de Trêve by the extraordinary French novelist Frédéric Berthet and the rediscovery of Jenny Ballou’s lost memoir Spanish Prelude. The two excerpts from Journal de Trêve , “Truce” & “Letter to Saul Bellow” (translated by Linda Coverdale) are introduced by Norbert Cassegrain, Berthet’s editor and close friend until Berthet’s untimely early death on Christmas Day 2003. Jenny Ballou’s “Café Revolutionaries” (from Spanish Prelude), is one of the most lucid accounts of the intellectual firmament in Spain just prior to the birth of the Spanish Republic.
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