Del dominio pʹublico

Con un estilo combinatorio que alterna el ensayo con la cronica, la reflexion y la nota biografico, la ironia con el asombro, el paisaje intimo y el cosmopolita, Pitol propone al lector, en estos quince ensayos, varias exploraciones de la obra de otros tantos autores solitarios y radicales. Libro de libros, escrito desde la grandeza del lector entusiasta y la humildad del artesano, esta obra es, sobre todo, la casa del escritor que dialoga amorosamente con sus maestros, reconociendolos e interpretando sus palabras a la luz de la experiencia propia.

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

Canon y compromiso pudieran parecer dos categorías antitéticas, cuando menos a la luz de las premisas que sostienen el polémico concepto de canon divulgado por Harold Bloom. Este libro, en cambio, parte de la insoslayable imbricación de estética e ideología, o de la idea de la literatura como discurso ideológico, y pone en juego una noción de compromiso que conduce a superar las tradicionales dicotomías manejadas por el inconsciente artístico dominante, pureza/impureza, privado/público, intimidad/historia, y la querella resultante entre el canon poético y el compromiso. Desde...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...