Los muchachos perdidos

La luna sobre el agua pertenece ante todo a mis relaciones con el mar, a quien amo y a veces temo desde que tengo memoria; a playas e islas reales; a playas e islas imaginarias; a la sensación de volar sobre las olas y al espejismo, que a veces me azota o me corteja cuando escribo. Se trata de un tercer libro de relatos, situado en San Gregorio y Fortuna, archipiélago mítico que ha surgido de espacios asomados a la inmensidad del oleaje, al bullicio e idiosincrasia de sus gentes. Como sucede en Colombia, sus personajes están anclados en el tedio y la rutina, lo mismo en la luz que en la...

The fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con el tema del movimiento en la poesía española del siglo de oro

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...

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....