Jorge Eduardo Eielson

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...

Esta compilación cabe entenderla como una historia fantaseada de la literatura, vista desde la puerta de atrás. Las solapas nacen a principios del siglo XX y perduran hasta el día de hoy.

El pasado sigue vivo de manera a veces dramática. Una democracia debe pelear por la verdad histórica: revisar el pasado es una virtud de la historiografía, aunque haya una forma de revisionismo culpable, la que olvida con quién estaba la razón en 1936. Este libro se propone volver sin anteojeras sobre la actividad intelectual y cultural de los años treinta y cuarenta, pero atiende sobre todo a las reacciones de importantes escritores del período ante la propagación del virus fascista. En España surgen intelectuales fascistas, que pierden el nervio ideológico desde finales de los...

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...