La Sacudida que transformó a México

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

La historia y la política le dan al escritor chileno Jorge Edwards los materiales necesarios para producir una escritura inscripta en un campo siempre presente en su obra: la memoria. Sus últimos libros apelan a ella de modo privilegiado, constituyéndose en un núcleo medular. La consideración de un grupo de cartas de Edwards, dirigidas a escritores y críticos, permite indagar en cuestiones autobiográficas que son centrales en su proyecto narrativo.

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