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ICON is one of an acclaimed series of short novels or mini-novels written by Warwick Collins.
Victor Gambini, a young American translator of Spanish poetry, meets the great blind Argentine writer Luis Váldez during one of the writer’s lecture tours of American universities. Despite the difference in ages — Váldez is nearing 70 compared with Gambini’s 34 years — the writer recognises a parallel literary zeal and rigour in the young translator.
Váldez has a complex relationship with the English language. His maternal grandmother was English, and he remembers reading the books of Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and other classic English writers in his father’s library before he became blind. Until then Váldez has been read mainly in Spanish, with a few English translations. Together Váldez and his young translator Gambini set out to recreate Váldez’s life work in the English language, in a celebrated collaboration which results in a masterpiece of English literature.
Warwick Collins has an international literary reputation. THE RATIONALIST was described by Le Monde as 'a perfect novel'. His novel GENTS was reviewed in the Times list of all-time literary classics.
Collins has now completed 21 sparkling new fictions for Mini-novels, specifically for e-book publication. Each is about 50 pages long and capable of being read in under an hour. All 21 mini-novels are available through Amazon and Kindle. For a full list, click on "Warwick Collins (Author)" above. Or go to mini-novels.com for further details.
The publication of such a body of work, dedicated to the e-book form, is something of a literary event. Norman Thomas di Giovanni, the celebrated translator of Jorge Luis Borges, has written of the mini-novels series: "Hats off to Warwick Collins; he has single-handedly and beautifully revived for us the long story."
Victor Gambini, a young American translator of Spanish poetry, meets the great blind Argentine writer Luis Váldez during one of the writer’s lecture tours of American universities. Despite the difference in ages — Váldez is nearing 70 compared with Gambini’s 34 years — the writer recognises a parallel literary zeal and rigour in the young translator.
Váldez has a complex relationship with the English language. His maternal grandmother was English, and he remembers reading the books of Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and other classic English writers in his father’s library before he became blind. Until then Váldez has been read mainly in Spanish, with a few English translations. Together Váldez and his young translator Gambini set out to recreate Váldez’s life work in the English language, in a celebrated collaboration which results in a masterpiece of English literature.
Warwick Collins has an international literary reputation. THE RATIONALIST was described by Le Monde as 'a perfect novel'. His novel GENTS was reviewed in the Times list of all-time literary classics.
Collins has now completed 21 sparkling new fictions for Mini-novels, specifically for e-book publication. Each is about 50 pages long and capable of being read in under an hour. All 21 mini-novels are available through Amazon and Kindle. For a full list, click on "Warwick Collins (Author)" above. Or go to mini-novels.com for further details.
The publication of such a body of work, dedicated to the e-book form, is something of a literary event. Norman Thomas di Giovanni, the celebrated translator of Jorge Luis Borges, has written of the mini-novels series: "Hats off to Warwick Collins; he has single-handedly and beautifully revived for us the long story."
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