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Fellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators

June 27, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center

Photo of Kazuo Ishiguro in London, 2009, at home, by Isabelle Boccon-Gibod

by Enora Lessinger

I visited the Kazuo Ishiguro archive at the Harry Ransom Center in June 2017, a few months before Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This British writer of Japanese descent is famous for the suggestive quality of his writing, and in particular for his self-deceived, unreliable narrators. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellows Find, Fellowships, Kazuo Ishiguro, literature, Manuscripts

“My mind was blown, and so it began.” New curator of early books and manuscripts is former network and systems engineer

May 23, 2017 - Marissa Kessenich

Aaron T. Pratt has joined the Ransom Center as our new Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts.

[Read more…] about “My mind was blown, and so it began.” New curator of early books and manuscripts is former network and systems engineer

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Meet the Staff Tagged With: Aaron T. Pratt, archive, Books, Curator, early books, Manuscripts, Ohio State, Pforzheimer, Pforzheimer curator, Pforzheimer Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, staff, Yale

Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

February 27, 2017 - Ryan Blake

The author and his wife selecting the artwork for the cover of Crónica de una muerte anunciada; photographer and date unknown.

In August 2016, I joined the Ransom Center as a graduate student assistant from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information to digitize the Gabriel García Márquez papers. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, author, Bill Clinton, Books, Carlos Slim, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Colombia, Council on Library and Information Resources, digital archive, digitization, family photographs, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, GRA, grant, literature, Manuscripts, photo album, photographs, Ryan Blake, scrapbooks, Shakira, Sharing Gabo with the World

Horace and presocratic manuscripts on display

July 19, 2016 - Elizabeth Garver

Horace, Opera cum commentario Acronis, Italian, 15th century Latin humanist script, illuminated manuscript on parchment

Classical Studies and Western Philosophy Collections

Classics-related holdings at the Ransom Center range from second century Ptolemaic Greek papyri fragments to medieval manuscripts, from early printed editions and translations to squeezes [Read more…] about Horace and presocratic manuscripts on display

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Aldus Manutius, ancient, Aristotle, Benjamin Dean Meritt, classics, E. E. cummings, Eleusinian Mysteries, Greek, Horace, Manuscripts, Ostracon, presocratic, Professor Gregory Vlastos, squeeze

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

October 22, 2015 - Megan Barnard

The cover of the carbon typescript of El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No One Writes to the Colonel], 1957.
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Alguna vez  Gabriel García Márquez comentó que creía que la principal razón por la cual los escritores leen las novelas de otros, era para aprender cómo las escribieron.  Para el laureado con este Premio Nobel los libros tenían una importancia tremenda, y con frecuencia escribía o hablaba de los autores que más habían influido en él. [Read more…] about Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres: Influencias literarias en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, archives, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Manuscripts, William Faulkner, writers

The company we keep: Gabriel García Márquez’s literary influences

October 22, 2015 - Megan Barnard

A bronze bust of Gabriel García Márquez by artist Kate Murray. Photo by Pete Smith.
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Gabriel García Márquez once said that he believed the main reason writers read the novels of others is to learn for themselves how the books had been written. Books were tremendously important to this Nobel laureate, and he wrote and spoke frequently about the writers who most influenced his own work. [Read more…] about The company we keep: Gabriel García Márquez’s literary influences

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: acquisition, Acquisitions, Books, collecting, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Manuscripts, William Faulkner, writers

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