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Ilan Stavans

Massachusetts
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Essayist, cultural critic, translator, publisher of Restless Books. restlessbooks.com
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The Fictional Translations of Ilan Stavans - Pittsburgh Review of Books

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By Ilan Stavans
| Pittsburgh Review of Books
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Cervantes, the Jews, and Spain Today

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By Ilan Stavans
| Tablet Magazine
“… either being Argentine is an inescapable act of fate—and in that case we shall be so in all events—or being Argentine is a mere affectation, a mask.” —Jorge Luis Borges In his lecture “The Argentine Writer and Tradition,” delivered in Buenos Aires and published, in essay form, in 1951, Jorge Luis Borges, argues for Argentine writers not to limit their interests to Argentine themes but to broaden them, to emphasize the particular by embracing the universal.
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The Great Decipherment

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By Ilan Stavans
| The American Scholar
The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya by David Stuart; Princeton University Press, 488 pp., $35 David Stuart, an archaeologist at the University of Texas at Austin and the youngest-ever recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant (he was awarded the prestigious fellowship at age 18), has written a superb, sprawling account of Maya civilization from c. 1000 BCE to 1697 CE—nearly two centuries after the Spanish conquistadors arrived in what is today southern Mexico and Central America.
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