El tercer latido

Fragmentos Críticos Postcoloniales es un conjunto de ensayos que, de manera contrapunteada y crítica, analiza el alcance histórico, cultural y literario de la fragmentación en Panamá. Si se parte que Panamá posee una historia de fragmentaciones es, precisamente, esta historia la que ha sido en gran parte el impulso y la explicación de su febril creatividad en la literatura, la música, las artes y la ensayística. A lo largo de ocho ensayos transdisciplinarios se analiza a Ricardo Miró, Joaquín Beleño, Eric Walrond y a un autor más reciente, Carlos Fong, quien escribió una novela...

Entre las décadas del veinte y treinta del siglo XX, se desarrolló en el Ande una notable labor cultural que comprometió campos ideológicos, políticos y literarios. En dicho periodo se editaron las revistas Kosko (Cusco, 1924), Amauta (Lima, 1926), el Boletín Titikaka (Puno, 1926), Chirapu (Arequipa, 1928), y se publicaron los libros Trilce, 5 metros de poemas, Descripción del cielo, Falo, Ande, que revelaron la expresión de un vanguardismo excepcional en el ámbito de la creación literaria y una lúcida reflexión sobre el momento histórico. En esta antología, preparada por el...

This novel is unique in the time period. Written in Spanish, by a French author, and published in Paris, the title (Deceits of this World) relates to a well-established genre wherein literature and morality were intertwined. Loubayssin writes with irony and wit. It is delicately erotic, a feature that cannot be found in its Spanish counterparts, due to the repressive censorship in Spain at that time. - In Spanish.

Fray Luis de Len (1527-91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. He spent five years imprisoned in solitary confinement by the Spanish Inquisition, fighting to clear himself of a series of accusations against his views on the Bible. Acquitted on all counts, he returned to teach at the University of Salamanca. This book examines the controversies in which Fray Luis was caught up, and investigates the ...