¿Un unicornio en una granja?

El primer chileno en escalar las cumbres más altas de cada continente narra sus increíbles experiencias de vida Tras un grave accidente, Mauricio Purto recuerda las razones que lo llevaron a querer ascender a las cumbres más altas del mundo. Una crónica testimonial apasionada y fascinante que no solo nos lleva a recorrer lugares exóticos y triunfos deportivos, sino que comparte un ejemplo de vida y una búsqueda espiritual.

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...

Como crecen los hongos ofrece un panorama detallado de la produccion novelistica argentina entre 1838 y 1872, periodo que suele ser caracterizado como particularmente esteril en el genero. Los ochenta y seis textos examinados en estas paginas revelan, sin embargo, la fecunda obra de novelistas ignorados o desdenados por el canon. Molina analiza la novela como una realidad emergente en el sistema cultural del siglo XIX, teniendo en cuenta la produccion, la edicion y la recepcion, la poetica del genero y el estudio de los textos particulares. Minuciosas pesquisas bibliograficas, hemerograficas...

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...