Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone," his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? a composite "type"?) fuses with the evocation of a hip new zeitgeist to produce a veritable anthem. In "Ballad of a Thin Man," the younger generation's confusion is thrown back in the Establishme...

Los Olvidados (1950) established Luis Bunuel's reputation as a world-class director. Set in the slums of Mexico City, it follows the crime-filled and violent lives of group of juvenile delinquents. The film exhibits some of Bunuel's recognisable themes of love's yearnings, social injustice, and surrealism, but with a layer of compassion that sets it apart from many of his other films. In 2003, 'Los Olvidados' was inducted into UNESCO's Memory of the World programme, which preserves documen...

Seit 50 Jahren dreht sich nun schon Highway 61 Revisited auf den Plattentellern der Welt, aber Mark Polizzottis Buch zeigt all das auf, was man bisher überhört hat. Mit seinen durchdachten und kompetenten Analysen fasst er das Wissen über das Album zusammen und fügt neue Ideen und Details hinzu. Damit trägt er zu einem tiefen Verständnis darüber bei, wie dieser Meilenstein in der Musikgeschichte entstand. Das Buch bietet eine eigenwillige, fesselnde Einführung und beschert allen Dylan-Fans...

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonateWhy does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton’s Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist movement in contemporary terms and offers insight into why it continues to inspire makers and consumers of art, literature, and culture.Polizzotti shows how...

An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty—summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment. In this nuanced and provocative study, Mark Polizzotti attempts to reframe the debate ...

År 1965 släpper Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited", ett album som inte bara fångar tidsandan utan också omdefinierar populärmusiken genom att skildra de mörka sidorna av den amerikanska drömmen med en unik blandning av poesi och rock.Highway 61 är inte bara en metafor. Det är en verklig väg som sträcker sig genom USA, från norr till söder. En väg som passerar både Dylans barndomshem samt födelseplatserna för flera blues- och rocklegender som Elvis Presley och Muddy Waters. En väg som...

En este número de Texturas se pueden encontrar textos de John B. Thompson, Valerie Miles, Mark Polizzotti, Jesús Ortiz, Paulo Cosín, Íñigo García Ureta, Marta Magadán-Díaz, Jesús I. Rivas-García, Enric Faura, Fernando Pascual, Jaume Balmes, Julián Viñuales Lorenzo y José Luis de Diego.

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume—Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the author's originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti's superb English-language translations capture not only Modiano's d...

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the author’s originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti’s superb English-language translations capture not only Modiano’...

“Echenoz is one of the contemporary literature's rare graceful magicians.” —BookforumJérôme Lindon is a genre-defying meditation on the friendship and working relationship between Jean Echenoz and his editor, the founder of Les Editions de Minuit, Jerome Lindon. Lindon published the work of Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, and Robbe-Grillet, among so many other giants. This voice-driven ramble recounts in candid, understated, and hilarious glimps...

A new translation of one of the defining works of the French surrealist movement, an energetic autobiographical novel that is at once both a tumultuous romance story and an initiation into the surrealism of everyday life.In Paris, during the fall of 1926, André Breton met a young woman from the provinces who called herself Nadja because, she said, "in Russian it's the beginning of the word for hope, and because it's only the beginning." Their love affair was brief,...

**A sharp and playful critique of colonialism from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature, animated by memories, archival specters, and powerful women“In sentences of great beauty and restraint, Mukasonga rescues a million souls from the collective noun ‘genocide,’ returning them to us as individual human beings.” — Zadie Smith**In a 4-part narrative brimming with historical asides, alluring anecdotes, and murky questions left in the margins of colonial records,