Los caminos de la lengua

Two novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series are now available in print for the first time.

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

En este segundo tomo se aborda el periodo especialmente complejo de Brasil que va de 1930 a 1936 en el que Reyes tuvo que sortear las complicaciones políticas derivadas del inicio de la dictadura de Getulio Vargas, al mismo tiempo que insiste en la promoción de la cultura y el intercambio de ideas.

This novel is unique in the time period. Written in Spanish, by a French author, and published in Paris, the title (Deceits of this World) relates to a well-established genre wherein literature and morality were intertwined. Loubayssin writes with irony and wit. It is delicately erotic, a feature that cannot be found in its Spanish counterparts, due to the repressive censorship in Spain at that time. - In Spanish.