Cowboy Graves
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Cowboy Graves
One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors" takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone and finds himself recruited into the Clandestine Surrealist Group, a secret society of artists based in the sewers of Paris. And in "Fatherland," a young poet reckons with the fascist overthrow of his country, as the woman he is obsessed with disappears in the ensuing violence and a Third Reich fighter plane mysteriously writes her poetry in the sky overhead. These three fiercely original tales bear the signatures of Bolaño's extraordinary body of work, echoing the strange characters and uncanny scenes of his triumphs, while deepening our reverence for his gifts.
Legends and Life in Texas
Author: Kenneth L. Untiedt
language: en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date: 2017-12-15
There is sometimes a fine line between history and folklore. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society features articles that tell stories about real-life characters from the historical past of Texas, as well as offer personal reflections about life from diverse perspectives throughout the last century. These contributors go beyond merely stating facts about dates or locations or names of the events and people that can be found in court documents or genealogical records; several of these authors provide a very intimate connection to the tales they share. These articles are not just about people that we read about as school children, and they do not merely describe how our culture used to be, or how vastly it has changed; rather, they emphasize the ways we keep our culture alive through the retelling of the events and customs and major figures that are important enough to pass on from one generation to the next. The first section covers legendary characters like Davy Crockett, Mody Boatright, Sam Houston, and Cynthia Ann Parker from our state’s past, as well as people who were bigger or bolder than others, yet seem to have been forgotten. Some of those characters came from different countries, while others are connected directly to our Texas Folklore Society family tree. The second section includes works that examine songs of our youth, as well as the customs and social constructs associated with music, whether it’s on a football field or in a prison yard. The works in the final section recall memories of a simpler time, when cars and home appliances lacked modern conveniences we now take for granted, before Facebook and YouTube allowed us to become Internet movie stars, and when it was a treat just to go and “visit” with family and friends.
Atlas Awakens
The Wall is down. The war has just begun. Berlin, 1990. The Cold War is officially over. The Berlin Wall has cracked, and the world is celebrating the "End of History." But in the shadows of the collapsing German Democratic Republic, a terrifying new reality is taking shape. This is the Interregnum—the lawless eleven months between the fall of the Wall and the birth of a new nation. The police have retreated, the spies are shredding their files, and the border has become a sieve. East Germany is no longer a country; it is a flea market for the apocalypse. When an intercept from a Soviet "Ghost Train" reveals a terrifying secret, Master Sergeant Graves and USAF analyst Jimmy Hart are pulled back into the fray. A rogue faction of the Stasi and KGB, known only as Atlas, has activated a doomsday contingency. They aren't trying to save the Soviet Union—they are liquidating it. Their asset? A genetically modified biological weapon capable of depopulating a city. Their delivery system? A train loaded with jet-powered drones, disappearing into the chaotic rail network of the East. Their target? The Unity Day celebrations in Berlin. With no backup and no authority, Graves and Hart must navigate a treacherous landscape of neo-Nazi street gangs, Russian mobsters, and desperate defectors to find the train before the clock runs out. Just because the world stopped listening, doesn't mean the enemy stopped screaming.