La casa de las alas

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

Buero attaches great relevance to the power of madness and dreams, and makes use of what he regards as one of Cervantes' greatest achievements: the fusion of fantasy and reality.

Primero de su género, este libro se interesa a los procesos de escritura ficcional del istmo centroamericano y de la literatura nicaragüense, en su evolución, sus motivos, y sus principales representantes, desde Darío, hasta la vanguardia y los jovenes autores de inicios del siglo XXI.El orden de los dos volúmenes que lo componen obedece doblemente al orden de escritura en el tiempo, y del acercamiento al material literario del istmo, y a una división temporal del mismo; el primer volumen tratando de los dos puntos extremos de la creación de la literatura de la región: es decir, de...

Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literature, from pre-Columbian times to the present, covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.