Their, How Have I Not Read This? book club event is being held in partnership with Palabras Bilingual Bookstore ! This fall, both The House on Mango Street and its Spanish translation La casa en mango street (translation by Elena Poniatowska), are on the list of new titles included in the NEA Big Read. With nearly seven million copies sold, and translated into more than two dozen languages, this is a life-changing story of childhood and self-discovery. Told in a series of vignettes-sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous-Cisneros’ masterpiece tells the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. This coming-of-age story is acclaimed by critics, taught in both grade schools and universities, and beloved by readers of all ages. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.How Have I Not Read This? Book Club Discussion of The House on Mango Streetįeaturing Sandra Cisneros in conversation with Marie AranaĬelebrate Latinx Heritage Month with a discussion of Sandra Cisneros’ beloved The House on Mango Street / La casa en mango streetįirst published in 1984, Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street has become a true modern classic. In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. In addition, he is the author of hundreds of articles, reviews, and editorial introductions. His most recent books include How to Read and Why (2000), G enius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. Educated at Cornell and Yale universities, he is the author of 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996), and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), a 1998 National Book Award finalist. Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University.
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