En nombre de Don Juan

Cuando en 1935 el crítico literario chileno Raúl Silva Castro escribe que ninguna poesía de Gabriela Mistral le «parece plausible» y que toda su obra es «un conjunto de exageraciones, caídas de tono, imágenes oscuras y retorcimiento verbal» o, casi un siglo y medio antes, Voltaire califica Hamlet de W. Shakespeare como «bárbara y vulgar», fruto de «un salvaje borracho», las glorias y las miserias de la crítica se revelan en toda su intensidad: la miseria que implica el no acertar, la gloria que conlleva el atreverse a fallar. Este libro cobija un sinnúmero de juicios...

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.

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...