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Un autor es un antes que nada un lector. En La distracción Sergio Missana nos invita a seguir los recorridos de sus lecturas por heterogéneas tradiciones y épocas. Textos sólidos, muy bien escritos, eruditos; que miran de cerca a sus personajes y a sus creadores comprendiendo disímiles poéticas. Quizás lo más importante para un autor es generar un mundo y dotarlo de lenguaje. Esa es la operación que observa, con lupa, este libro que desentraña la máquina ficcional de Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Bernhard, Doris Lessing, Marcel Proust, Nicanor Parra, entre otros.

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...

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...

The Selection Coloring Book is the perfect companion for fans of the Selection series. It features original black-and-white line drawings of favorite characters and moments from the world of Illa, as well as stunningly designed hand-lettered quotes from all five Selection books.