Contra Unamuno y los demás

Text in Spanish. Pedro Páramo, the only novel published by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, is a masterpiece. Tras los murmullos offers six different readings and analyses of the novel by Mexican and Scandinavian scholars. Contrary to what might be expected, the Scandinavian reader is able to identify with the solitude of the characters in the novel, the language of few words of the peasants and the careful linguistic awareness of Rulfo. This may not be surprising since Rulfo was, as discussed in one of the chapters, inspired by Scandinavian literature, which he admired. Also discussed here is ...

Este proyecto analiza las diversas formas en que la representación del espacio se ha utilizado para la construcción de Asia, especialmente de China y de Japón, por los escritores hispanoamericanos del siglo XIX y XX. Me aproximo a este estudio con una comprensión del espacio como una construcción social delineada por la relación del sujeto con el conocimiento adquirido a través de lecturas y experiencias reales vividas en Asia. Los principales autores estudiados son José Martí, Julián del Casal, Rubén Darío, Enrique Gómez Carrillo, José Juan Tablada y Efrén Rebolledo. Mi marco...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

He osado compilar este conjunto de prosas asumiendo el siguiente criterio: excelencia verbal consabida en aspectos poco conocidos de la autora. Luis Vargas Saavedra