Figuras de la experiencia en el fin de siglo

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...

"The unevenly clustered historical conditions of the Caribbean nations bind us to the revival and redefinition of the ideals of unification begotten by 19th Century Puerto Rican thinkers. Coleccion Caribena is intended to build connection points that will enable the exchange of ideas, languages and forms. In doing so this collection will reflect the plural character of the region while publishing a comprehensive sample of works in various fields-Literature, Social Sciences, Literary Criticism, History-and, hopefully in various languages. An analysis of famed Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia...

Un escalofriante libro-reportaje sobre los jóvenes que se encuentran en las correccionales de la capital y que esperan pacientemente el transcurrir de los días para salir y vengarse de sus enemigos o unirse a las filas del crimen organizado. ¿Qué harás cuando salgas?- le pregunto al Banda, preso en la corre de San Fernando por robo, secuestro y asesinato. Me gustaría estudiar ingeniería automotriz. Ahora leo filosofía y novelas. Afuera no leía ni estudiaba. Mi novela favorita es de Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez, Dirigentes del mundo futuro.» ¿Cuál es la causa de que un muchacho se...

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...