Rituales literarios

Excerpt from La Descendencia de Lope de Vega Pero de flores y de perlas hecho, entraba Carlos a llamarme, y daba luz a mis ojos, brazos a mi pecho. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may...

Un ensayo indispensable para orientarse en el amplio espectro de la literatura latinoamericana y una guía esencial para quienes deseen introducirse en las últimas corrientes. Este ensayo propone un recorrido por la evolución de la novela en Latinoamérica, desde el descubrimiento del continente hasta nuestros días. Quienes emprendan esta ruta hallarán en ella a las grandes figuras de la novela latinoamericana y sus temas constantes: la naturaleza salvaje, los conflictos sociales, el dictador y la barbarie, la épica del desencanto, el mundo mágico de mito y lenguaje, pero sobre todo su...

PolitÌca / sexualidad shows that during the 1980s a traceable phenomenon in Latin American women's writing is the creation of a knot in which sexuality becomes entangled with politics. Women's writing struggles to create a political reading of the discourse of sexuality and likewise show how political space forces the private sphere to impose itself upon the sexuality of women. At one level of representation, a woman's body is the space where discourse merges the joyful experience of pleasure with the pain of repression. This book is a contribution to the construction of a Latin American...

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...