Filosofía y vanguardia en la obra literaria de J.M.G Le Clézio

Esta obra constituye una oportuna contribución a los estudios literarios del Caribe colombiano. Si bien no todos los escritores examinados proceden de este espacio cultural, ni han tenido el mismo reconocimiento, la preeminencia del Caribe queda fuera de toda sospecha con estudios sobre Gabriel García Márquez, Germán Espinosa, Alberto Duque López, Alejandro Álvarez y Efraim Medina Reyes. Sus páginas, que complementan artículos sobre William Ospina, Alfredo Bryce Echenique y Juan José Saer, conjugan la precisión de la crítica contemporánea con el lenguaje de los textos bien...

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...

Las novelas historicas del romanticismo hispanoamericano cumplen un papel fundamental en la articulacion del imaginario colectivo nacional durante el siglo XIX. Largo tiempo olvidadas y desplazadas de la historia literaria, no obstante su intertextualidad en la tradicion narrativa y la literatura del posboom, la critica no ha prestado suficiente atencion a los modos ficcionales y a la retorica que enmarcan la -nacionalizacion- de este genero narrativo popular a partir de determinados paradigmas. Este libro plantea un acercamiento sociohistorico y explora la nocion de genero incorporando las...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...