Villasandino y su hablante lírico

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Guillermo Sheridan realiza un trabajo de reconstrucción literario-histórica del surgimiento, desarrollo y apogeo del grupo literario de los Contemporáneos, entre quienes destacan Xavier Villaurrutia, Carlos Pellicer, Gilberto Owen, Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano y José Gorostiza.

La fuerza que te habita representa una extensión y, sin temor al embate de la hipérbole, un enriquecimiento del repositorio artístico donde habitan Shakespeare, Homero, Jorge Luis Borges o Kathleen Raine, cada uno en su lengua propia, cada cual en lenguajes diferentes y, al mismo tiempo, en el continuo idioma del verso. Las piezas reunidas en este libro son la suma de una historia larga y anchurosa. Son también acontecimientos enteramente nuevos, destellos de la maestría formal y de la inteligencia íntima de un hombre, de un poeta, que ha hecho de la lectura y de la escritura, propia y...

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...