The Winners ( Spanish : Los premios ) is a novel by Julio Cortázar published in 1960. It was his first published novel (though not the first novel he wrote) and was also the first of his books to be published in English in its entirety.
12-435: The winners of a state lottery, a cross section of the citizens of Buenos Aires, have received tickets for a mysterious luxury cruise. Summoned to meet in a popular café and escorted under the cover of darkness to the secret location of their ship, they embark without knowing where they are headed. Within hours the ship stops; the passengers are informed that a disease has broken out among the crew and that they will be confined to
24-600: A "series of writings from and on China". Markus Werner Markus Werner ( German: [vɛʀneʀ] ; 27 December 1944 – 3 July 2016) was a Swiss writer , known as the author of the novels Zündels Abgang ( Zündel’s Exit ), Am Hang ( On the Edge ), and Die kalte Schulter ( Cold Shoulder ). Markus Werner was born in Eschlikon , in the canton of Thurgau . In 1948 the family moved to Thayngen (canton of Schaffhausen ) where Werner finished school and passed
36-471: A small section of the ship. In suspense, the passengers mull over their pasts and the future, form attachments and suspicions, tell secrets, explore desires. While some of them merely accept their confinement, others are increasingly driven to confront the crew, leading to an outbreak of violence. The novel was published in France under the name Les Gagnants in 1961. The book was reprinted in 1999 as part of
48-598: The Edge by Markus Werner (January 2013). The New York Review Children's Collection was founded in 2003 to reintroduce children's books that have fallen out of print, or simply out of mainstream attention. The series includes more than 30 titles, ranging from picture books to young adult novels. NYRB Kids was founded in 2015; titles are "drawn from The New York Review Children’s Collection and reissued as stylish paperback editions designed to be especially attractive to young readers". Other collections and series include New York Review Comics , NYRB Poets , and Calligrams,
60-717: The books include an introduction by a writer or literary critic. Edwin Frank is the editor of the Classics imprint. It has been called "a marvellous literary imprint ... that has put hundreds of wonderful books back on our shelves." NYRB Collections is a series of books that collect essays by frequent contributors to The New York Review of Books . With works by writers such as Larry McMurtry , Frank Rich , Mary McCarthy , Freeman Dyson and others, NYRB Collections present treatments of major intellectual, political, scientific, and artistic developments and debates. The NYRB Lit series
72-586: The general qualification for university entrance in 1965. At the university of Zürich he studied German , philosophy and psychology . In 1974 he completed a doctorate on Max Frisch , whose writing has been an important influence on Werner. From 1975 to 1985, he worked as a teacher, and from 1985 to 1990 as an assistant professor at the Kantonsschule (high school) in Schaffhausen. He dedicated himself exclusively to writing after 1990. In 2002, he
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96-399: The world appears in too sharp and sometimes laughable details, situations that Werner's protagonists simply cannot deal with. Seemingly harmless everyday perfidies break down Werner's characters: the deaf ears of their fellow men, their cold, headstrong souls. Human deficiencies are described in a tragicomical way. Werner sees the self-evident as something strange, is astonished and wonders like
108-612: The world. Since its first volume, a 1999 reissue of Richard Hughes 's 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica , NYRB Classics has published hundreds of titles. Occasionally, it has published translations of works previously unavailable in English by writers including Euripides , Dante , Balzac and Chekhov . It also publishes fiction by more contemporary writers such as Vasily Grossman , Mavis Gallant , Upamanyu Chatterjee , Georges Simenon , Kenneth Fearing , and J. R. Ackerley . Most of
120-526: Was elected member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in Darmstadt. Werner lived in Schaffhausen until his death in 2016. The protagonists of Werner's novels have quit their jobs. From their perspectives Werner laconically describes everyday life, at turns astonished, with distress, and with humour. The results are strictly calculated scenes and episodes in which the course of
132-577: Was established in July 2012 with the specific goal of publishing contemporary works of noteworthy fiction and non-fiction from around the world. It is an e-book -only series that strives to publish titles considered too low in profitability for traditional publishers. The first-announced titles were The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke (September 2012); Beirut, I Love You by Zena El Khalil (October 2012); 1948 by Yoram Kaniuk (November 2012); Ravan and Eddie by Kiran Nagarkar (December 2012), and On
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#1732793711640144-500: Was started in the fall of 1999. It grew out of another enterprise called the Reader's Catalog (subtitle: "The 40,000 best books in print"), which sold books through a catalog. Founder Edwin Frank and his managing editor discovered that many of the books they wanted were out of print, so they decided to republish titles in fiction and non-fiction. NYRB Classics is a series of fiction and non-fiction works for all ages and from around
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