Calimas Blancas que trae el Viento de Poniente Atlántico

Damián Tabarovsky launches a broadside against the state of modern Argentinean literary culture in this harsh, belligerent critique. There are few the author doesn’t take to task; he rails against the market and academic institutions for concerning themselves only with profit and against authors of supposedly “high” literature who have abandoned experimentation in search of a greater audience. What Tabarovsky proposes instead is a type of literature that refuses to kowtow to standard conventions of language, plot, and genre—literature that is written with no particular reader in...

Including Homage to Catalonia 'Spain not only defined Orwell as an individual, it also gave him his first glimpse of totalitarianism' D. J. Taylor, Guardian George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together his complete writings on the war, including Homage to Catalonia, his searing memoir of fighting in the conflict and the bitter betrayal that followed. The powerful journalism, essays, letters and pamphlets also collected here show his resolution to tell the truth about what happened amid a 'crop of lies' from...

Potpourri was released as Eugenio Cambaceres left Buenos Aires for Europe. This, plus the omitted author's name ¿though immediately identified¿ Cambaceres' social standing, the many allusions, and the writing style, all contributed to secure it a smashing success.The scathing critique of the Buenos Aires bourgeoisie unleashed bitter comments, that fostered press runs never seen before in the country.Some readers condemned the book invoking the need to kindle the recently obtained political peace, whilst others directly related it to French naturalist novel and pornography.But the accusation ...

Este volumen reúne los artículos de Gabriel García Márquez aparecidos en El Espectador de Bogotá durante 1954 y 1955, los cuales desentrañan los signos de sus temas predilectos. Aparecen ya las consecuencias de ciertas lecturas, en particular las de Camus y Hemingway, con reflexiones y análisis de hechos investigados en caliente, donde la forma delata preocupaciones fundamentales y preexistentes en su creador y donde el rigor narrativo -la ambición por contar bien- supera el mero afán inicial de información, para alcanzar un alto valor artístico.