El sicario en la novela colombiana

"Cuervo es negro. Negro como el carbón. Tan negro que da miedo. Pero, ahora, Cuervo tiene planes."--Publisher's description.

RESUMEN: Una comparación entre el poema «Nu» de Manuel Bandeira y «Amores 1.5» de Ovidio muestra semejanzas asombrosas que quedan confi madas en la lectura detallada de ambos y el comentario paralelo. El poema de Ovidio contiene la más hermosa descripción de un desnudo femenino de la literatura latina. Es por eso un texto que representa lo mejor de la Antigüedad. El de Bandeira, tan similar, es un muy bello texto de la literatura brasileña querepresenta lo mejor de la Modernidad. Se confirman la modernidad de Ovidio y la condición de clásico de Bandeira, equiparable a los grandes...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

Beyond the Family Romance explores parallels between Pascoli's work and such writers as Tarchetti, Boito, Poe, and Invernizio.