Alejo Carpentier. La facultad mayor de la cultura

Baltasar Gracián reúne en esta obra 300 aforismos e ideas sobre la conducta humana presentes en sus obras, a las que añade comentarios explicativos no menos valiosos. El autor, conocido por su conceptismo propenso a juegos de palabras y sentidos, tiende a sintetizar y «oscurecer», pues está convencido de que así el lector aprovechará más su mensaje. Esto, que puede convertir en difíciles algunos textos, les concede, al mismo tiempo, una belleza poco común y les permite conservar su vigencia y utilidad práctica. Hasta tal punto, que desde la década de los noventa este libro es un...

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...

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

El autor trata de asimilar las conclusiones de sus predecesores en el análisis crítico de esta obra, para llegar a una edición más depurada y acorde al texto original.