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LA MANO QUE ESCRIBE: Literatura, arte y pensamiento FIRST NATIONAL ESSAY AWARD 2008 OF THE PEN CLUB OF PUERTO RICO BY: ZOÉ JIMÉNEZ CORRETJER THE HAND THAT WRITES: Literature, Art and Thought This collection of essays include studies from medieval to contemporary literature in Spain and the Americas. Topics are focused in a philosophical, symbolical, and anthropological perspectives. Some essays cover the history of women philosophers, language and linguistics, sephardic studies, aesthetics, medieval misticism, and feminism... The title of the book was inspired by the special object named...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Se presentan aquí textos en los que se puede destacar la conclusión de que, pese a todo, origen es destino y la nación -circuito de emotividades- nutre a las obras de temas, atmósferas y habla, "particulariza" la visión del mundo y aporta un lenguaje, una vida familiar, un relato cruzado de logros y fracasos y de amores y de odios, un conjunto de juicios y prejuicios, una historia a la que se pertenece y una jerarquización de lo real.

En estas memorias se combina un rigor ensayístico en el análisis del contradictorio proceso histórico de la República Democrática Alemana (RDA), con una amenidad singular que surge de significativas anécdotas de la vida del autor como estudiante de literatura alemana y dramaturgia en Leipzig, y como practicante en el Berliner Ensemble, el mundialmente famoso teatro fundado por Bertolt Brecht. En la primera parte se analizan graves contradicciones entre los intereses de la ex URSS y la RDA. No obstante, las vivencias del autor y las relaciones sexuales, amorosas y amistosas que vivía la ...