Fabliaux III

A contrapelo de la posmodernidad hegemonica que cancela la funcion narrativa, la novela de Roa Bastos no descree de la capacidad recuperadora del imaginario social como instrumento de construccion de la memoria colectiva: plantea la memoria-oralidad dialogica como instrumento de reflexion historica, resquebrajadora del monologismo colonizador de las historias oficiales. Tampoco su filosofia del lenguaje esta basada en el descredito de la capacidad comunicativa; muy por el contrario, a causa de la textura dialogica que entrelaza sus multiples voces, "Yo el supremo" es lo mas parecido a un...

Lucian Regenbogen ha reunido en este libro algunas de las frases más célebres de Napoleón junto con otra que muestran su aguda inteligencia. La política, la táctica militar, el patriotismo, la literatura, el arte, las mujeres y algunos de los personajes más célebres de su tiempo son objeto de una de las miradas más lúcidas que se dieron en su época.

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...

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.