El Caribe universal

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

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...

Los cerca de sesenta relatos de horror que escribió H.P. Lovecraft en su corta vida le dieron una nueva dimensión a la literatura de terror, que ya no sería la misma después de él. Lovecraft logró trascender el horror puramente humano de diablos, brujas y vampiros e intuyó una realidad oculta, cósmica, terrorífica, y apenas descriptible: imaginó un espantoso panteón de deidades, los «Primordiales» o «Grandes Antiguos», con el dios ciego e idiota Azatoth a la cabeza («una ruina amorfa de absoluta confusión que blasfema y babea en el centro del infinito»), Yog-Sothoth,...

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

¿Por qué seguimos leyendo los escritos de Beatriz Sarlo sobre literatura argentina? ¿Por su condición de voz autorizada para repensar nuestro canon nacional, ese corpus selecto que genera aceptación pero también enconos? ¿O más bien porque encontramos en sus textos, cada vez que volvemos a ellos, una lectura generosa en recursos de interpretación, una lectura que va más allá de la crítica literaria entendida como un metalenguaje que descifraría las claves de una obra? Bajo la mirada de Beatriz Sarlo, un libro de poemas, una novela o un ensayo nunca pierden su espesor propio, pero ...