A partir del trauma

A thorough study of the life and works of the Chilean poet, winner of the 1991 "Premio Pablo Neruda."

This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within the emancipation processes of 19th-century American Enlightenment, it explores the new coexistence modes and esthetics they disseminated.

El libro es una recopilación de 13 trabajos en los que se analizan las reseñas publicadas en la revista Contemporáneos. Formó parte del proyecto de investigación " Las reseñas de la revista Contemporáneos : la mirada propia y ajena", que durante un año (2006-2007) financió la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.

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...