Momentos críticos

Seven middle-aged women, who have not seen each other for more than 30 years, are called to a class reunion at which they are forced to confront a terrible secret from their childhood.

En el presente trabajo se plantea la pregunta por la presencia de lo poético en la obra del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar. Se intenta fundamentar el carácter poético de la prosa cortazariana más allá de una mera clasificación genérica. Para ello introducimos el concepto de intersticio o de lo intersticial. El intersticio es una instancia posibilitadora de sentido en la medida en que implica una suspensión o cuestionamiento de la realidad dada. Lo intersticial, precisamente por escabullirse a un sentido fijo, se manifiesta textualmente a través de diversas estructuras o...

Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...