La poética del esbozo

Isabel Quintana investiga con perspicacia la representacion de las crisis de la memoria a traves de la literatura. Su punto de partida es la definicion benjaminiana de la "experiencia plena," concebida como un bien perdido que busca hacerse oir. Quintana analiza el periodo que comprende desde las dictaduras militares hasta el neoliberalismo de nuestros dias, concentrandose en la obra de Ricardo Piglia y Juan Jose Saer, Cristina Peri Rossi y Silviano Santiago. Su estudio indaga practicas escriturarias que luchan contra lo informe de la memoria tratando de articular horizontes posibles de...

Antolog a de ensayos sobre la discusi n en torno a la cr tica literaria feminista y la especificidad de sta, cuestionan aspectos como la relaci n de cada sujeto -escritor, lector- con el poder, el lenguaje y el significado; atienden minuciosamente los discursos y las teor as literarias desarrollados con rigor en el marco de referencia de las feministas y resaltan, adem s, los v nculos entre textualidad y sexualidad, g nero y cultura, identidad y poder.

The compilation "La Habana Elegante. Segunda epoca. XV Anniversary (1998-2012). Julian del Casal (In Memoriam)" produced by prof. Francisco Moran offers a wide selection of memories, testimonies, and critical readings on Julian del Casal (Havana, 1863-1893), and of literary works inspired by his work and poetic figure that attest to the fascination that for already more than a century the poet of Nieve has exerted on Cuban and other Latin American writers. Included are texts from already classic authors such as: Ruben Dario, Jose Marti, Paul Verlaine, Jose Lezama Lima, Cintio Vitier, Dulce...

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...