Léxico y pragmática

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Camelia estaba sentada en la mesa del comedor y disfrutaba de un riquísimo postre a base de crema y frutas preparado por su madre ese mismo día. Sentía una paz ensordecedora, una calma que no había percibido en su interior por muchísimo tiempo. Era como cuando el tsunami finalmente pasa y la desesperación da paso a la resignación. Al final, la calma que sentía era eso, la resignación conseguida luego de aceptar que no había salidas posibles y que pronto el dolor menguaría para siempre. Disfrutaba del postre con lentitud, como si quisiera grabar en su mente y sus sentidos esa mezcla ...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

In this new adventure, Dr. Brot and his assistant, Nap, are planning to construct a megamall that would wipe Galerna Park and the city of Agus off the map. Luckily, Pintaca s paintbrushes and Octosol s guitar have arrived to save the day but not without an adventure!"