El Hispanismo en Norte-América

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."

La fuerza que te habita representa una extensión y, sin temor al embate de la hipérbole, un enriquecimiento del repositorio artístico donde habitan Shakespeare, Homero, Jorge Luis Borges o Kathleen Raine, cada uno en su lengua propia, cada cual en lenguajes diferentes y, al mismo tiempo, en el continuo idioma del verso. Las piezas reunidas en este libro son la suma de una historia larga y anchurosa. Son también acontecimientos enteramente nuevos, destellos de la maestría formal y de la inteligencia íntima de un hombre, de un poeta, que ha hecho de la lectura y de la escritura, propia y...

Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man in Costa Rica, would rather practice playing his tuba, but he is called to the mountain resort of Monteverde to investigate an armed robbery of a group of tourists, and Pacheco soon finds himself pitted against a group of clever professional criminals.

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