Colapso: Mírame y Dispara 3

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...

Una mosca se paseaba contenta y despreocupada por el bosque, cuando de pronto apareció una araña que se la comió. Luego la araña es comida.. y luego por... ¡Ufff!

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...

"Leídas hoy, estas especulaciones tal vez resulten menos disruptivas que en 2010, lo que por fortuna nos permitirá apreciar su carácter visionario. Al mismo tiempo, esas rupturas tienen momentos que conservan toda su potencia respecto de la obra anterior de Josefina Ludmer. En este sentido, el encuadre fue audaz, destinado a despertar tanto rechazo como valoración diez años atrás." Matilde Sánchez, del prólogo del libro. En este libro, Josefina Ludmer deja de lado las categorías más habituales de la teoría literaria en busca de nuevas articulaciones e ideas que permitan entender la ...