Manual de métrica española

Originalmente parte del libro Por cuenta propia (2010), que reúne los ensayos de Rafael Chirbes sobre literatura, en este magistral "La estrategia del boomerang", Chirbes explica su teoría de la novela y su propia trastienda de escritor. Imprescindible para conocer las claves de su escritura.

Ninguna obra como la de Miguel de Cervantes genera aún tantas disolvencias y divergencias. Leerle hoy es sólo una de las muchas maneras de reconocerlo y de reconocerse en su obra. De unos años acá, Ignacio Padilla se ha dado obsesivamente a dicha tarea. Irreverente, convencido de que siempre es necesario volver a los clásicos y reinventarse con ellos, el autor ha cabalgado en su propia quijotada de lector que a veces escribe. En esta aventura ha ido proponiendo, entre otras cosas, la aceptación de la ambigüedad y la falibilidad cervantinas, ha alanceado al monstruo del cervantismo...

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...