Pablo quiere ser capitán

No hay poema más enigmático, renombrado y oracular en la historia de la literatura que La tierra baldía de T. S. Eliot. Un siglo después, en su centenario, García de Leániz muestra la candente actualidad que el poema encierra en sus versos y el grado de cumplimiento de sus avisos y profecías. Sus principales temas —el desarraigo urbano, la cultura del olvido, la pérdida del sentido del ser, el daño ecológico y el problema de la redención del hombre y mujer actuales— apuntan de lleno a la encrucijada histórica en la que nos hallamos. Y nos sitúan en un estado de alerta sobre...

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...

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.

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