Los turnos de apoyo conversacionales

Tras llegar al final de su maratón, el lector, mareado sin duda por las elucubraciones, las fantasías y los inventos tan inverosímiles como escandalosos de los oulipianos (incluso de los oulipianos disfrazados), se alegrará, pienso, al ver cómo se restaura la simple y sobria verdad histórica en torno al “caso Hugo Vernier”. Jacques Roubaud, del posfácio del libro. En 1979 Georges Perec publicó El viaje de invierno, un relato breve en el que cuenta la historia de un joven profesor de literatura que descubre un libro fascinante, llamado justamente El viaje de invierno, de un autor...

Su amor fue tan intenso como su forma de vida. Niema y Dallas eran agentes especiales y hacían trabajos para diversas entidades, principalmente la CIA. Llevaban unos meses casados cuando aceptaron una peligrosa misión en Irán. Algo salió mal y, para salv

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...