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Gregory Rabassa

Works by Gregory Rabassa

by Gregory Rabassa and Julio Cortazar

Translations by Gregory Rabassa

Paradiso [Buy Direct]

by José Lezama Lima
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: Paradiso

A classic of modern literature, Paradiso was first published in Cuba in 1966 and quickly hailed as a masterpiece by such eminent writers as Julio Cortazar and Mario Vargas Llosa. Written by Cuba's most important poet, it tells the story of Jose Cemi , who, in the wake of his father (more...)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) [Buy Direct]

by Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: Cien años de soledad

The Lizard’s Tail (1983) [Buy Direct]

by Luisa Valenzuela
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: Cola de lagartija (El señor de Tacuru)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) [Buy Direct]

by Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: Crónica de una muerte anunciada

Hopscotch (1963) [Buy Direct]

by Julio Cortázar
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: Rayuela

Fado Alexandrino [Buy Direct]

by António Lobo Antunes
Translated by Gregory Rabassa

Avalovara [Buy Direct]

by Osman Lins
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: Avalovara

Showdown [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: Tocaia Grande

Showdown was described as giving ‘the underside of (Brazilian) history’ by B.J.Chamberlain in his 1990 book on Jorge Amado. It’s certainly the underside in the sense of being the totally non-respectable version of the founding of a cocoa town in Southern Bahia. (more...)

War of the Saints [Buy Direct]

by Jorge Amado
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Original title: O Sumiço da Santa

The writer amused himself with The War of the Saints, as he says in the preface: ‘It’s been fun to write; if someone else has fun reading it, I’ll consider myself satisfied’. (more...)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Buy Direct]

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Gregory Rabassa

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