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Hatful of Tigers is a collection of poetic essays, reminiscences, and sketches exploring the reality of Central America by one of Latin America's most accomplished writers, Sergio Ramírez. This fascinating mosaic is also Ramírez's homage to the narrative's central figure, the world-renowned writer Julio Cortázar, whose commitment to the Nicaraguan revolution served as an inspiration for the Nicaraguan people.

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ISBN-13:	9780915306985
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	07/01/1995
Edition description:	1st English ed
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	1360L (what's this?)

About the Author

Author of over two dozen books of fiction, SERGIO RAMIREZ was born in Masatepe, Nicaragua in 1942. He was Vice President of Nicaragua during the Sandinista regime. In 2000, Mr. Ramirez was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Maryland. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Ordre du Chevalier des Artes et Lettres in France.

DAWIN J. FLAKOLL was a journalist, author, translator, and editor. He is best known for his collaborations with his wife, Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet Claribel Alegría. He died in 1995.

Notice to Travelers
Envoi

BEFORE
February 17, 1985 (Sunday) Montparnasse
1965. San José, Costa Rica
Daguerreotype
A Conversation About Central America in the "Seven Seas"
October 1967, León, Nicaragua
Daguerreotype
Summer 1974. East Berlin
A Chat about Central American Union in the "Seven Seas"
April 1976. San José / Solentiname
Daguerreotype
In Which There is More Talk About Central America in the "Seven Seas"
September 1976. Frankfurt / Paris
Central America, Anti-Communism, and Folklore at the "Seven Seas"
January 1978. Havana
Daguerreotype
Central America: Endgame at the "Seven Seas"

AFTER
Julio Cortázar's Trips to Nicaragua
July, Days of Triumph, 1979. León
The Strategy of the Eagle
1. The eagle is bald because he hasn't a single stupid hair.
July / September 1979. Free Nicaragua
October 1979. Casares
Cortázar among Us
2. Feathering the eagle.
October 1979. Siuna
Rosario Mining of Nicaragua, Inc. Discharge
March 1982. Managua
May 1982. Poneloya
July 19, 1982. Masaya
Cortázar among Us
3. Plucking the eagle.
July 1982. El Velero
February 6, 1983. Managua
July 12, 1983. Bello Horizonte
July 13, 1983. El Ostional / Belén
Daguerreotype
February 17, 1985 (Sunday) Montparnasse

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Editorial Reviews

"For those of us who dream the synthesis, how art and reality hopscotch to make the revolution, Sergio Ramírez's literary classic is a dream come true. Brilliant, beautiful, haunting, exquisite, its Darían light. Julio Cortázar turns himself over in bravos!" —Sharon Dubiago

"An inclusive collection of essays about art and culture that further demonstrates [Ramírez's] preeminence as a person of letters." —Professor David Craven, The Oxford Art Journal

"This is an extraordinary memoir. By exploring the love affair between Julio Cortázar and Nicaragua, the great Central American author Sergio Ramírez brilliantly illuminates the times we live in and proves to us that wonderful writers can creatively engages the lives of the people of the world." —Ariel Dorfman

From the Publisher

Nicaraguan writer Ramirez, who was vice-president of his country during the Sandinista regime, effectively portrays Central America as a U.S. fiefdom, an entity run by Yankee ambassadors, bankers and transnational corporate managers who foster a culture of servility, impotence and conformity. In this collection of eloquent essays, sketches, reminiscences, lyrical fragments and travel notes, he discusses massacres of student protesters and assassinations of fellow activists by the U.S.-backed Somoza clan's dictatorship in the 1960s and '70s; pays glowing tribute to Argentine novelist Julio Cortazar, a supporter of the Sandinistas; and analyzes the stagnation of popular culture through ``meaningless vernacular art'' and the constant celebration of the past. First published in Nicaragua in 1986, this volume defends the Sandinista revolution as a drive for national independence from economic and political domination by ``the Colossus of the North,'' and condemns the U.S.-led boycott and CIA-orchestrated contra invasion that, according to Ramirez, crippled socioeconomic transformation. (June)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

One of the interesting by-products of Latin American revolutions of the Left is that literary figures are often the chroniclers of the conflict. This is especially true of the Nicaraguan Sandinista revolution of the late 1970s, which drew such important literary figures as Ernesto Cardenal and the author of this volume. A prominent literary figure of the Central American and Latin American "boom" in literature, Ramrez was an early supporter of the Sandinista revolution and served as vice president of Nicaragua under President Daniel Ortega. This volume is a translation of a 1986 Spanish-language publication of short, poetic descriptions and essays dealing with events of the revolution. Not a political account, the work focuses on the art and culture that came out of the revolution; the central figure of the volume is the Argentine writer Julio Cortzar, a prominent supporter. A fascinating look at Central America, its literature, and the politics of the Left; for subject collections.-Mark L. Grover, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, Ut.

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