Blanco, de Octavio Paz, o la estética de la evanescencia

¿Por qué seguimos leyendo los escritos de Beatriz Sarlo sobre literatura argentina? ¿Por su condición de voz autorizada para repensar nuestro canon nacional, ese corpus selecto que genera aceptación pero también enconos? ¿O más bien porque encontramos en sus textos, cada vez que volvemos a ellos, una lectura generosa en recursos de interpretación, una lectura que va más allá de la crítica literaria entendida como un metalenguaje que descifraría las claves de una obra? Bajo la mirada de Beatriz Sarlo, un libro de poemas, una novela o un ensayo nunca pierden su espesor propio, pero ...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832?95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

En esta edición especial de Pestilencia y Muerte, estos dos amigos deciden viajar a la ciudad del 'caloret', y todo ello para pasar unas fiestas inolvidables que por circunstancias del destino, se volverán en una pesadilla.

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...