Las baquetas de Javier

"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...

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...

The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and scandalous thinkers in recent memory' and 'the Giant of Ljubljana'. Collects work by one of the most arresting and scandalous thinkers of our time. Aids the reader to understand the often complex thinking of both Lacan and Zizek .

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...