Academias morales de las Musas II

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ crea un particular tipo de escritura en la que lo sobrenatural, lo insólito, no es el otro lado, sino que se incorpora al plano de la realidad, de la cotidianidad. La magnitud de su obra, literaria y periodística, no cabe en la etiqueta fácil del "realismo mágico". A García Márquez no hay que simplificarlo con le mármol y la canonización. es necesario, eso sí, leerlo y releerlo, para advertir que su alquimia de gitano Caribe nos hace más humanos en tiempos aciagos de deshumanización. Ese es, precisamente, el propósito de la valoración múltiple que ofrece ...

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him ...

El recorrido de este segundo Tomo de la Historia comparada de las literaturas argentina y brasileña se extiende entre el esplendor del romanticismo en su función programática y la crisis económica que sacudió ambos escenarios nacionales en 1890-91. En el itinerario marcado por el apogeo del comienzo y la decadencia del cierre del período se revisan las inflexiones más significativas de las dos literaturas. La canonización del autor y la canonización de las obras, dos de los criterios organizativos de una literatura independiente, reúne en capítulos simétricos a Sarmiento y José...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...