Celebracion de la Novela 1

Un compendio de conocimiento absurdo sobre fútbol (a día de hoy) de la mano de Antonio Pacheco, coautor de La Pitipedia y de Miguel Gutiérrez, el creador del blog La libreta de Van Gaal.

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Isabel Quintana investiga con perspicacia la representacion de las crisis de la memoria a traves de la literatura. Su punto de partida es la definicion benjaminiana de la "experiencia plena," concebida como un bien perdido que busca hacerse oir. Quintana analiza el periodo que comprende desde las dictaduras militares hasta el neoliberalismo de nuestros dias, concentrandose en la obra de Ricardo Piglia y Juan Jose Saer, Cristina Peri Rossi y Silviano Santiago. Su estudio indaga practicas escriturarias que luchan contra lo informe de la memoria tratando de articular horizontes posibles de...

Obra de una de las mejores etapas creativas de este poeta y ensayista que ha sabido conjugar los tiempos de la historia personal con los de la colectiva.

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...