Topografía de lo insólito

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...

Entre 1805 y 1806, Jan Potocki, partiendo de Petersburgo, atraviesa Siberia hasta sus confines sudorientales, se incorpora en Irkutsk a una embajada rusa, cruza la frontera del imperio chino, se adentra por el desierto de Gobi hasta la capital de Mongolia y, de regreso, reatraviesa Siberia por un itinerario distinto al de la ida. Ha sido el mayor de sus muchos viajes, y también el último: se propone más tarde apro-vechar la experiencia y conocimientos adquiridos en Siberia y Mongolia para "servir al estado" (ruso). Emili Olcina expone el significado de ese último viaje, el de un...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

Aquests dos volums d'assajos tracten de diversos aspectes i autors de la literatura nord-americana, des dels orígens puritans fins als nostres dies. Des de la problemàtica de la possible elaboració d'un cànon literari nord-americà fins a, passant per autors com Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck i William Kennedy, es presenta una visió d'aquesta literatura que té en compte els textos literaris dins del desenvolupament històric, polític i econòmic del país.