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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...

La semiótica es el estudio de toda clase de signos: palabras, imágenes, sonidos, gestos y objetos; es decir, de toda realidad que colocamos en lugar de otra. Los signos, además, forman parte de un sistema que les otorga significado. Este libro, un gran tratado de semiótica para universitarios, profundiza las teorías estructurales sobre los signos y los significados.

Ofelia and Amoke appear to be complete opposites. The only things they have in common are an elderly, eccentric author named Virginia Wonnacott, the Hiraeth Association, and the feeling that something is missing from their lives. When Virginia offers Ofelia a job as her personal assistant, the lives of the two girls merge. Through conversations, used books, letters, and early morning Whatsapp messages, the girls discover a future they did not think existed as well as their feelings toward one another.

Dice Rodolfo Alonso sobre el autor: "Absolutamente inerme para sobrevivir en la vida cotidiana, en la vida burguesa, los avatares de la existencia y del destino de Baudelaire lo convirtieron también (…) en el primer poeta maldito, en el primer Cristo del arte, al que seguirían tantos ejemplos de “suicidados por la sociedad”, como bien dijo Antonin Artaud".