Espacios y tiempos de lo fantástico

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...

Se reúnen por primera vez en su solo volumen los textos Inquisiciones y Otras inquisiciones, que abren algunos de los temas que serán recurrentes en la estética del autor. Este feliz volumen, inédito como tal hasta hoy, se compone de dos libros dados a imprenta con más de un cuarto de siglo de diferencia, la que separa 1925 de 1952. No obstante, sus ensayos pertenecen a un mismo diálogo, el de Borges con la historia literaria, el del lector con el escritor. De entre ellos, «Menoscabo y grandeza de Quevedo» señala los rostros múltiples del autor; «La nadería de la personalidad»...

In this new adventure, Dr. Brot and his assistant, Nap, are planning to construct a megamall that would wipe Galerna Park and the city of Agus off the map. Luckily, Pintaca s paintbrushes and Octosol s guitar have arrived to save the day but not without an adventure!"

Includes reproductions from the author's diaries and notebooks and, for the first time, an unfinished short story titled Dry martini.