Putrefactio

Importante obra de referencia sobre el autor sevillano y su principal obra; en este volumen se recopilan las aportaciones de los participantes en el Seminario Internacional sobre Mateo Alemán con motivo del IV Centenario de la Publicación de Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1999).

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...

Escritos de un insomne es un volumen compuesto por columnas y ensayos, que aborda casi diez años del pensamiento del escritor y editor Damián Tabarovsky. A pesar de la pluralidad de temas, obras y autores que contiene, existe una pregunta que se reitera y ata estos escritos: quizá decimos realmente cuando afirmamos que toda literatura es política. Ante esa afirmación, Tabarovsky nos devuelve a la frase una y otra vez, que se vuelve problema y pregunta: ¿toda literatura es política? Contrario a cualquier forma de totalitarismo y a los eslóganes que pueblan gran parte del triste...

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay...