La Parodia en la nueva novela hispanoamericana (1960–1985)

Muchos de los poemas que conforman Poems Written In Early Youth, escritos entre los dieciséis y veintidós años, incluyen la formación misma que el combatiente modernista buscaría desacreditar más tarde: Shelley, Tennyson y los victorianos, incluso Byron (cuya influencia se hace muy visible en poemas como “A Fable for Feasters”). Aunque la mayoría de los poemas muestran a un Eliot virando hacia los intereses revolucionarios de su primer volumen: la influencia de Laforgue, Corbière y Baudelaire, y la resurrección de los metafísicos.

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...

Originalmente parte del libro Por cuenta propia (2010), que reúne los ensayos de Rafael Chirbes sobre literatura, en este magistral "La estrategia del boomerang", Chirbes explica su teoría de la novela y su propia trastienda de escritor. Imprescindible para conocer las claves de su escritura.

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...