Memoria del paladar

A young mouse feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.

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...

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...

En El compromiso en la novela de la II República su autor estudia la narrativa de uno de los períodos de nuestro siglo XX más difíciles de abordar por la destrucción de las novelas de este tipo efectuada durante la guerra y los primeros años de la era de Franco. Frente a la idea tradicional. de que el compromiso es exclusivo de la izquierda, Fulgencio Castañar demuestra que los acontecimientos por los que atravesaba España obligaron a más de una treintena de escritores de diferente signo a tomar partido en sus obras narrativas. Tras una panorámica de la evolución de la literatura...