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"Accomplishes the indispensable function Salman Rushdie says the storyteller must have: not to let the old tales die out." -- Carmen Perilli, La Gaceta, Tucuman
"Angelica Gorodischer is the indisputable pride of Argentinean literature." -- Mariana Amato, La Nacion, Buenos Aires
"Nabokovian in its accretion of strange and rich detail, making the story seem at once scientific and dreamlike." -- Time Out New York
"Reaches much farther than the common run of stories about huge empires...enters the realm of fable, legend, and allegory." -- Luis G. Prado, Gigamesh, Barcelona
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Kalpa Imperial is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. But Kalpa Imperial is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Gorodischer and acclaimed writer Ursula K. Le Guin, who has translated Kalpa Imperial, are a well-matched, sly and delightful team of magician-storytellers. Rarely have author and translator been such an effortless pairing. Kalpa Imperial is a powerful introduction to the writing of Angélica Gorodischer, a novel which will enthrall readers already familiar with the worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin.
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"Accomplishes the indispensable function Salman Rushdie says the storyteller must have: not to let the old tales die out." -- Carmen Perilli, La Gaceta, Tucuman
"Angelica Gorodischer is the indisputable pride of Argentinean literature." -- Mariana Amato, La Nacion, Buenos Aires
"Nabokovian in its accretion of strange and rich detail, making the story seem at once scientific and dreamlike." -- Time Out New York
"Reaches much farther than the common run of stories about huge empires...enters the realm of fable, legend, and allegory." -- Luis G. Prado, Gigamesh, Barcelona
Product Description
Kalpa Imperial is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories. But Kalpa Imperial is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Gorodischer and acclaimed writer Ursula K. Le Guin, who has translated Kalpa Imperial, are a well-matched, sly and delightful team of magician-storytellers. Rarely have author and translator been such an effortless pairing. Kalpa Imperial is a powerful introduction to the writing of Angélica Gorodischer, a novel which will enthrall readers already familiar with the worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin.
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The storyteller said: Now that the good winds are blowing, now that we're done with days of anxiety and nights of terror, now that there are no more denunciations, persecutions, secret executions, and whim and madness have departed from the heart of the Empire, and we and our children aren't playthings of blind power; now that a just man sits on the Golden Throne and people look peacefully out of their doors to see if the weather's fine and plan their vacations and kids go to school and actors put their heart into their lines and girls fall in love and old men die in their beds and poets sing and jewelers weigh gold behind their little windows and gardeners rake the parks and young people argue and innkeepers water the wine and teachers teach what they know and we storytellers tell old stories and archivists archive and fishermen fish and all of us can decide according to our talents and lack of talents what to do with our lifenow anybody can enter the emperor's palace, out of need or curiosity; anybody can visit that great house which was for so many years forbidden, prohibited, defended by armed guards, locked, and as dark as the souls of the Warrior Emperors of the Dynasty of the Ellydróvides. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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The storyteller said: Now that the good winds are blowing, now that we're done with days of anxiety and nights of terror, now that there are no more denunciations, persecutions, secret executions, and whim and madness have departed from the heart of the Empire, and we and our children aren't playthings of blind power; now that a just man sits on the Golden Throne and people look peacefully out of their doors to see if the weather's fine and plan their vacations and kids go to school and actors put their heart into their lines and girls fall in love and old men die in their beds and poets sing and jewelers weigh gold behind their little windows and gardeners rake the parks and young people argue and innkeepers water the wine and teachers teach what they know and we storytellers tell old stories and archivists archive and fishermen fish and all of us can decide according to our talents and lack of talents what to do with our lifenow anybody can enter the emperor's palace, out of need or curiosity; anybody can visit that great house which was for so many years forbidden, prohibited, defended by armed guards, locked, and as dark as the souls of the Warrior Emperors of the Dynasty of the Ellydróvides. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
great empress, imperial police, ferret prince, twenty directions, silk dealer, currant pudding Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Cat, Kalpa Imperial, Angélica Gorodischer, Master Bramaltariq, Angélica Gorodischcr, Golden Throne, Eagle Alley, Mistress Assyi'Duzmaül, Empress Hallovâh, Angelica Gorodischcr, Angclica Gorodischcr, Drauwdo the Brawny, Prince Ferret, Imperial Guard, Loôc Valley, Emperor Ferret, Dark Princes, Chamber of Foreign Commerce, Emperor Sebbredel, Prince of Innieris, Whiterose Street, Mother of the Arts, General Vordoess'Dan, Fountain of the Five Rivers, The Flute-Player Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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