The Ties that Bind

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...

Los nuevos medios audiovisuales (videoclips, apps, internet, etc.) son parte fundamental de nuestra forma de entender la narrativa en el mundo actual. En este ensayo se explora cómo estos influyen a la literatura, a partir de un estudio de caso de la novela Trainspotting; misma que resulta un ejemplo paradigmático donde los medios distintos al literario pesan sobre la forma de escribir la narrativa contemporanea. (¡Advertencia! Este ensayo incluye varias citas en inglés, por lo que el conocimiento del idioma es recomendable para poderle dar seguimiento).

En esta serie de ensayos, Óscar Quezada Macchiavello construye una mirada que interpela el sentido de fenómenos socioculturales y textos artísticos desde la semiótica y la filosofía. Luego de analizar los discursos que configuraron la escena política en el caso de Lucchetti Perú (1997-1998), pasa revista a mitos recogidos en el Manuscrito de Huarochirí (principios del siglo XVII) y, además, a obras de César Vallejo, José María Arguedas, Julio Ramón Ribeyro y Jorge Luis Borges. Ensayos semióticos: teoría, mito, literatura presenta un modo de lectura apoyada en las aplicaciones...

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...