El alma del bosque

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...

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...

El presente estudio tiene una doble finalidad. La primera consiste en demostrar que El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, la obra suprema de la literatura universal, llena de sabiduría y de erudición clásicas, no pudo ser escrita por el «ingenio lego» Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, tanto por la escasez de sus estudios como por la ajetreada vida que llevó, muy alejada de las características favorecedoras de la creación literaria. La segunda finalidad consiste en la demostración de la autoría de Juan Luis Vives, nuestro primer y más universal humanista, mediante la...

There was much excitement on the small mountain farm. All the animals were waiting for the new horse to be brought in. They expected him to be snow-white, tall and thin. When the trailer with the horse arrived at the farm, Katja the Cow saw him. The animals were convinced that they would meet a unicorn. But would they?