Viaje al imperio de China

"Leídas hoy, estas especulaciones tal vez resulten menos disruptivas que en 2010, lo que por fortuna nos permitirá apreciar su carácter visionario. Al mismo tiempo, esas rupturas tienen momentos que conservan toda su potencia respecto de la obra anterior de Josefina Ludmer. En este sentido, el encuadre fue audaz, destinado a despertar tanto rechazo como valoración diez años atrás." Matilde Sánchez, del prólogo del libro. En este libro, Josefina Ludmer deja de lado las categorías más habituales de la teoría literaria en busca de nuevas articulaciones e ideas que permitan entender la ...

Includes reproductions from the author's diaries and notebooks and, for the first time, an unfinished short story titled Dry martini.

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...