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Rosario Castellanos (1925-1974) hace una muy personal incursión en Mujer que sabe latín... en el debatido y siempre actual tema del feminismo. En este campo, Castellanos es una polemista que combate con las armas del ingenio y de la ironía a través de una prosa que resplandece de sentido.

Un autor es un antes que nada un lector. En La distracción Sergio Missana nos invita a seguir los recorridos de sus lecturas por heterogéneas tradiciones y épocas. Textos sólidos, muy bien escritos, eruditos; que miran de cerca a sus personajes y a sus creadores comprendiendo disímiles poéticas. Quizás lo más importante para un autor es generar un mundo y dotarlo de lenguaje. Esa es la operación que observa, con lupa, este libro que desentraña la máquina ficcional de Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Bernhard, Doris Lessing, Marcel Proust, Nicanor Parra, entre otros.

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...

The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the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 .