Ciudad y escritura. Imaginario de la ciudad latinoamericana a las puertas del siglo XXI

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

El libro más leído de György Lukács es su Teoría de la novela (1920), a pesar de que Lukács lo condenó por ser anterior a su conversión al marxismo. En 1934 preparó los documentos contenidos en este volumen como una réplica marxista al libro de 1920, de orientación hegeliana. El presente volumen contiene su ensayo sobre teoría de la novela, escrito para la Enciclopedia literaria soviética, una ponencia de síntesis de este ensayo y el debate que tuvo lugar en el Instituto Marx-Engels de Moscú. Los tres documentos constituyen el punto de partida para una filosofía de la novela,...

En el poemario De agua de Fabio Gómez Cardona, el poeta propone una antología, a partir de varios de sus libros, escritos desde hace más de 20 años, retomando aquellos que expresan una poética en la que sobresalen las cosmovisiones indígenas americanas.