Las heridas de la ausencia

This is the first collection of criticism on Mario Benedetti's work published in Spanish covering his literary works, the major themes of his writing, cinematic interpretations of his works, and his political commitments.

No 109: LA CIUDADANIA IMAGINADA... Analiza como se defienden en la novela popular española, los valores y modos de comportamiento más deseables, como la tolerancia, el trabajo, el ahorro o los placeres de una vida tranquila vida doméstica, y cómo, en este aspecto, entre los autores de folletines y los grandes novelistas del periodo se establecen notables coincidencias.

La "re-vuelta", en el sentido etimol gico y proustiano del t rmino constituye el eje de las reflexiones desarrolladas en este libro, que se refieren a la visi n psicoanal tica de la libertad, al matricidio implicado por el abandono de la lengua natal y al extranjero como traductor. Asimismo, la autora efect a aclaraciones respecto de algunos temas de su obra: la intertextualidad, la distinci n entre lo semi tico y lo simb lico, lo abyecto y la abyecci n, y la extra eza.

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...