Fabliaux III

Sobre Paul Auster, la trascendencia de la textualidad y la memoria como partes definitorias de la condición humana. Todo ello siempre visto desde el interior de un laberinto urbano en donde el personaje y la cuidad se funden e intercambian.

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

This book is written in Spanish. This book is a study of the intellectual and cultural atmosphere surrounding the Spanish author don Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) during his stay at the Courts of Palermo and Naples (1613-1619) in the service of the Viceroy Duke of Osuna. Attention is paid particularly to his early knowledge of the works of the poet Marino, his role as protector of the Arts, and as intercessor on behalf of the philosopher Campanella. The second part of the book offers a detailed analysis of the author's writings during his Italian and post-Italian years as a result of his...

El profundo anhelo de las letras latinoamericanas de independizarse de las fuentes primeras hizo que nunca se reconciliaran con su pasado ibérico. En ese afán de independencia se propició un emparentamiento con diversas literaturas occidentales, pero ya desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII se entendía que la literatura nacional debía tener representatividad de la región de la cual surgía, por lo que se convirtió en el instrumento apropiado para fraguar la nacionalidad. Ángel Rama se adentra, por tal motivo, en el estudio de las culturas internas regionales para analizar la...