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Basque Literature Series
Series eds. Mari Jose Olaziregi and Linda White. Published by the Center for Basque Studies and distributed
by the
University of Nevada Press. To order by phone, please contact the University of Nevada
Press order line at 1.877.NVBOOKS (877.682.6657). Or send a note
along with payment—a check made out to Board of Regents—to:
University of Nevada Press / 166
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557-0076
Shipping (UPS): Add $5.00 for first book, $ 1.00 for each additional book.
Foreign orders, please contact the Press for shipping rates.
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Perfect Happiness
by Anjel Lertxundi; translated by Amaia Gabantxo
Perfect Happiness can be described as a realist novella with lyrical overtones. It explores how witnessing a terrorist assassination affects a teenage girl’s life over a span of fourteen years. Against this backdrop Lertxundi explores one of his recurring themes: the relationship between art and death. Perfect Happiness is moral without being didactic, and confessional – as well as natural and fluid – in tone. Confronting its horrific theme with profound existential understanding, it is an eloquent plea for the right to beauty and happiness and the importance of following one’s conscience.
148 pp., paper (ISBN 978-1-877802-74-4), $19.95. |
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Rossetti’s Obsession
by Ramon Saizarbitoria; translated from Basque by
Madalen Saizarbitoria.
This humorous novel involves an insecure writer’s efforts to
retrieve a note he once sent to a woman, which caused her to
fall in love with him. He hopes that the note will have the same
effect on his new romantic interest. “Rossetti’s Obsession
. . . accurately combines the most fragile, irritating, yet
touching traits of a man in search of the right role to play in
relation to women .
. . [A man] who is fearful of failing at love, weak and calculating,
and doubtful and puerile in his understanding of the mechanisms
of seduction.” (J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El País. Babelia,
03/23/2002).
192 pages; paper (ISBN 1-877802-60-3), $19.95.
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And the Serpent Said to the Woman
by M.L. Ońederra; translated from Basque by Kristin Addis.
“This book not only won [Ońederra] the Critics
Award, but also captivated many readers in its courageous and
risky account of the confessions of a married woman. Revolving
around the feelings and experiences written in a diary and
divided into the four seasons, a woman in her mid-thirties
examines every detail of her life.” (Jury of “Euskadi Prize for
Literature in Basque, 2000.”)
136 pages. Hardcover (ISBN 1-877802-59-X), $24.95; paper
(ISBN 1-877802-58-1), $19.95.
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An Anthology of Basque
Short Stories
compiled by Mari Jose Olaziregi
This compilation of short stories from fourteen contemporary
Basque writers provides an excellent introduction to modern Basque
literature. The works were translated directly from Basque into
English. Includes stories by Bernardo Atxaga, Lourdes Ońederra,
Iban Zaldua, among others.
222 pages. Hardcover (ISBN 1-877802-41-7), $24.95; paper (ISBN
1-877802-40-9), $19.95.
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