De libros, padres e hijos

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

El idiota - protagoista de este libro - es el sujeto alternativo que sobrevive a la crisis de la antropología, la disolución del sujeto o la así llamada "muerte del hombre" que fué declarada por los filósofos estructuralistas franceses.

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

Aquest llibre, que transcriu 322 cartes dels protagonistes de l'aventura científica que va ser ALPI - seleccionades entre més de mil localitzades en arxius públics i privats, i classificades cronològicament per períodes significatius-, és una història interna dels intents per a construir una parcel·la de la ciència lingüística, la dialectologia i la geografia lingüística, a l'altura del que existia en altres països europeus. El seu interès resideix no només en el valor testimonial que posseeixen els textos epistolars, que adonen dels fets esdevinguts durant més de mig segle...