La escuela del desencanto

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A más de cuatrocientos años de su publicación, el Quijote –y con él, toda la obra de Miguel de Cervantes– sigue gozando de una radical vigencia estética que lo constituye como un hito insoslayable en el desarrollo de la historia de la literatura y el arte. Y es que la escritura cervantina, poseedora de una prodigiosa capacidad para abrirse a siempre renovadas lecturas y relecturas, interpela permanentemente a quienes se aproximan a sus páginas para instalar preguntas tan fundamentales como qué es la ficción y qué es la realidad o dónde termina la cordura y comienza la locura. En ...

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...

Este libro reúne diez artículos sobre literatura chilena escritos entre 1976 y 2007, pero referidos a un período amplio de la producción literaria nacional, que va desde el siglo XIX hasta finales del siglo XX. La mayor parte de esos artículos fueron publicados en revistas europeas, pero los hay también aparecidos en Chile, y aun alguno ("Los artilugios de Artefactos") que no había sido publicado con anterioridad. A pesar de la diversidad temporal y temática que esos escritos abarcan, hay un hilo conductor que los une y que se manifiesta en todos ellos, con diversos acentos y matices: ...