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Short Stories in Spanish: New Penguin Parallel Text
by
John R. King
This new volume of ten short stories, with parallel translations, offers students of Spanish at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature, without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary.
Richly diverse in themes and styles, the stories are by both new and well-established writers and range from the sharp insights of Gabriel Garcia
...morePaperback, 256 pages
Published
January 1st 2001
by Penguin (Non-Classics)
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This was a good collection of stories. Most of them were relatively easy to read in Spanish (intermediate-advanced level). The hardest, language-wise was probably Cortazar's story. Most of the stories were Borges-like mini-mysteries. The parallel text saved me the trouble of looking up some words. But do be aware, as some translation is wrong (even I was able to pick up on some mistakes in the translations.) I only didn't read the last story, because the first two paragraphs were entire sentence...more
As with most collections of stories, some were immensely appealing and some not so much. My Spanish book club has been reading this, and it has definitely offered a nice variety.
I plan to pick at this a little more later. My spanish isn't to the level yet where I can read entire paragraphs and only have to look up a word or two, so reading in the original spanish is still quite time consuming. Reading in the English is okay, but with the exception of the Gabriel Marquez story, none of them really grip me yet. For now, I'll stick to reading transliterations of Neruda until my vocabulario improves.
It took me awhile to finish this as I tried not to read the English page and so struggled along in Spanish. It was worth it. I loved learning to recognize the beauty of each author's use of language. These particular short stories were very well chosen. Very moving, especially, for me, the Isabelle Allende "Wallimai." I passed this to a member of my Spanish Meet-up group.
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Well, I'm trying to learn Spanish from this book! It's slow going, though. I have to read and reread each page and make comparisons as I go along. The stories are good and hold my interest.
This is a varied collection of good stories by well-known authors, and the parallel format (English translation on the other side of every page) was very helpful for improving my Spanish.
So far the first story is not that interesting but I'm practicar-ing my espanol
one story by isabel allende "walimai" was v powerful to me....
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