Buenos Aires Poetry N°4

Con profundidad crítica y minuciosidad investigativa, el profesor y ensayista Chrystian Zegarra, estudia la poética de una de las voces más significativas de la poesía peruana del siglo XX, la de Emilio Adolfo Westphalen (Lima, 1911- 2001), escritor excepcional quien obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Literatura en el Perú, en 1977; el premio Southern, Perú, 1997; y el premio Miguel Hernández de poesía, España, 1998. A Westphalen escribió Vicente Huidobro, en 1933, luego de leer Las ínsulas extrañas, que el libro lo colocaba en “primera fila entre los poetas modernos de habla...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."

The story of a small French town during the 19th century. When a beautiful young woman moves into an old run down house, strange things start to happen.

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...