El polaco

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...

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...

El presente volumen incluye la prosa que escribe Neruda entre 1932 y 1959, tes decadas que comienzan con su llegada a Chile desC9es de un periodo de funciones consulares en Asia y termina con la legalizacion del Partido Comunista de Chile. Se trata en definitiva, de textos no solo de importancia artistica, sino tambien de importancia social, puesto que en la mayor parte de estos Neruda dialoga con su objeto de estudio: la historia, el arte, la sociedad.

"Cuerpo a diario" es un curioso panorama sobre diarios escritos en situaciones límites como la enfermedad, la guerra o los estados totalitarios. La visión de importantes escritores se traduce en magníficos eventos de ficción literaria.