Julio Cortázar

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

El género novela histórica vivió a finales del siglo XX una singular renovación en América Latina. En la literatura colombiana este fenómeno se expresó en dos grandes tendencias: la que prolongaba la visión hegemónica de la historia nacional y la que contestaba esa visión poniendo en la escena de la historia precolonial, colonial y republicana la variopinta diversidad cultural e histórica colombiana, sólo reconocida formalmente a partir de la Constitución política de 1991. Este libro aborda este contraste a través del estudio de algunas de las novelas históricas publicadas...

Este volumen presenta una serie de estudios que proyectan su interés sobre el mundo antiguo y su permanencia a través de los siglos. Los autores aquí reunidos construyen un entramado de abordajes que develan desde diversos puntos de vista la potencia simbólica y expresiva de la literatura grecolatina. En ese sentido, se propone una indagación acerca de la reescritura de textos clásicos y la intertextualidad entre mitos y motivos de la literatura antigua en general y dramaturgias posteriores. Cada uno de los estudios presentados busca echar luz sobre las razones de su pervivencia en la...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...