Mujeres que viajan solas

Este tercer volumen de la narrativa de Carlos Eduardo Zavaleta ilustre representante de la paradigmática Generación del 50, reúne cinco libros de cuentos. De ellos, tres se publican por vez primera. Tales: “Invisible carne herida” (1992), “Cuentos brevísimos” (2003), y “Cuentos últimos” (2004). A ellos se unen: “Contraste de figuras” (1998), y “Abismo sin jardines” (1999), que han merecido ediciones anteriores.

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

A pathbreaking account of the influence and context of Andalusian life and art in the poetry and drama of Federico Garcia Lorca. Andalusia was the central feature and influence in the life and writings of the twentieth-century author, musician, and artist, Federico Garcia Lorca. Rooted in his native region, which both captivated and shaped him, Lorca maintained that "The better a writer learns how to interpret the landscape, the greater the artist he will be." Blessed with an acute historical sense of a region where the past is both present and enduring, Lorca proved himself sensitive and...

Los diferentes países que conviven en Colombia bajo la mirada de William Ospina Admirables ejemplos de inspiración y admirables ejemplos de laboriosidad ha producido la poesía en Colombia. Las Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias, ,el más ambicioso poema de la Conquista de América; el Nocturno de José Asunción Silva, que cambió la respiración de la poesía en nuestra lengua; clamores hondos y estremecedores como los de Barba Jacob; luminosas ironías como las de Luis Carlos López; fiestas endiabladas con el lenguaje como las de León de Greiff; intensas y agobiantes selvas...