📗 Libro en inglés LUNATICS, LOVERS AND POETS: TWELVE STORIES AFTER CERVANTES AND SHAKESPEARE

‘The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.’ (William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream).

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, And Other Stories and Hay Festival have selected twelve contemporary international authors to each write an original and previously unpublished story as their tribute to these giants of world literature.

In order to celebrate the international influence of both writers and offer us new and intriguing perspectives on them, six English-speaking authors have taken inspiration from Cervantes and his work, while six Spanish-language authors have written stories inspired by Shakespeare. An introduction by Salman Rushdie explores the liberating legacy of Cervantes and Shakespeare for contemporary fiction.

The stories are:

Don Quixote and the Ambiguity of Reading – Ben Okri
Mir Aslam of Kolachi – Kamila Shamsie
The Dogs of War – Juan Gabriel Vasquez (tr. Anne McLean)
Coriolanus – Yuri Herrera (tr. Lisa Dillman)
Glass – Nell Leyshon
Opening Windows – Marcos Giralt Torrente (tr. Samantha Schnee)
The Piano Bar – Hisham Matar
The Secret Life of Shakespeareans – Soledad Puértolas (tr. Rosalind Harvey)
Egyptian Puppet – Vicente Molina Foix (tr. Frank Wynne)
The Glass Woman – Deborah Levy
The Anthology Massacre – Rhidian Brook
Shakespeare, New Mexico – Valeria Luiselli (tr. Christina MacSweeney)