El ornato burlesco en Quevedo

"Lo primero que es necesario reconfirmar, al acabar de leer este libro de relatos, es que Fabio Martínez es un escritor, un animal moribundo –para parafrasear a ese otro animal moribundo, Philip Roth–; es decir, es un hombre que imagina, recuerda y de ello hace ficciones. La imaginación de Martínez, de forma evidente, tiene que ver con su tiempo, el tiempo de su formación sentimental e intelectual de la Cali de los años setenta, primordialmente, y la de los ochenta en su viaje de aprendizaje a Europa. De ambas experiencias y, por supuesto, de sus lecturas preferidas y de su mirada a...

Creo que me gastaré más de una noche leyendo el libro de Albeiro Montoya Guiral. Por su belleza formal, porque no es un poeta de temporada como tantos ansiosos del aplauso y la figuración, y porque coincide con el aserto del viejo Ezra Pound: “su tema es el hombre”. Juan Manuel Roca Bogotá, abril 20 de 2015

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

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...