Faulkner en siete obras del Boom

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...

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...

Una visión completa, absolutamente personal y muy divertida del género negro, por uno de los escritores europeos más prestigiosos y populares. Se la llame negra o policiaca, y se la califique o no «literatura de género» --como si no fuera literatura sin más--, la novela criminal tiene súbditos, reyes, reinas (supuestos o no), capillas, polémicas, egos... pero, sobre todo, novelas que atrapan, impactan, sobrecogen y marcan tanto mentes como épocas. Incondicional de los libros, las películas y las series que describen --o denuncian-- la (mala) marcha del mundo, Pierre Lemaitre, con...

Descubre la plasticidad de Japón de la mano de Murakami. A través de la visión de uno de los especialistas en literatura japonesa, Carlos Rubio, el lector conocerá y descubrirá aspectos de la cultura japonesa y de la sociedad actual. ¿El Japón de Murakami o el Murakami de Japón? La historia de la cultura japonesa ha demostrado cierta habilidad para plasmar unos valores, una sensibilidad, una sustancia, unos significados reconocidos como característicamente nipones. Haruki Murakami no es una excepción a esa tendencia porque en cada una de las páginas de sus novelas está Japón; se...