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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...

"No es posible ser sabio, estoico ni coherente las veinticuatro horas del día; es necesario saborear el placer de vivir sin la seriedad profunda de los compromisos laborales, las prácticas religiosas políticas y cívicas de la cotidianidad ¿Por qué no ser demasiado humanos para el disfrute de la vida, mirando a los ojos de mi interlocutor cuando hace memoria del pasado, o cuando saboreamos el presente El autor de Relatos Carnavalescos lleva al lector al pasado, le dice lo que se contaba en épocas de las espelmas, las velas de cebo o las lámparas de petróleo; cuando entre la cena y la...

Una introducción a la semiótica de la mano de su mayor experto: Umberto Eco Después de Obra abierta, en la que estudiaba los lenguajes experimentales del arte contemporáneo, y de Apocalípticos e integrados, donde abordaba las técnicas y los temas de la comunicación de masas, Umberto Eco analiza aquí las fronteras de la semiótica. Comprender los sistemas de signos obliga a ver los códigos como estructuras y explicarlas a través de otras estructuras más vastas, en un movimiento regresivo hacia la matriz originaria de toda comunicación, hasta llegar a una estructura no estructurada. ...

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...