Al oído de la cordillera

Apoyado en las reflexiones de lectores como Daniel Pennac, Gabriel Zaid y muchos otros, el autor desmiente las falacias sobre la utilidad obligatoria de los libros y recupera la lectura como un acto de placer y ocio. Sin tibiezas y con humor, ¿Qué leen los que no leen? da una merecida estocada a los dogmas sobre la obligación de leer, revela las fallas estructurales de los programas de fomento a la lectura y desenmascara la hipocresía de una cultura que predica la "cualidad humanizadora" de consumir libros, pero que trata como inferiores morales a quienes no lo hacen. Este volumen...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

[SPA] Este texto, titulado «Una transacción de ojos y retratos (La soberbissimice y esta estória de «Os chapéus transeuntes»)», por un lado pretende reflexionar, desde una perspectiva holística, sobre algunos aspectos del conjunto de la obra ficcional de João Guimarães Rosa, que podemos resumir tanto en la dificultad derivada de su pertinaz recreación linguística, carácter renovador y experimentación técnica, como en los diferentes niveles de complejidad resultantes de su ejemplar indagación de lo humano. Por otro lado, a lo largo de estas páginas, también se pretende una...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...