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Poeta y traductora estrella de su generación (la “generación mimeógrafo” de la década de 1970 en Brasil), Ana Cristina Cesar (Río de Janeiro, 1952-1983) inauguró un modo de escribir, leer y pensar la literatura que excedió, con la potencia y la imprevisibilidad de un rayo, las fronteras de su país, e incluso las de su lengua y su época. Sus certeras, sugestivas y hasta hoy casi secretas investigaciones sobre los temas centrales de la creación literaria –que aquí presentamos en una primera traducción a nuestro idioma– se plasmaron en una serie de escritos cuya novedad y...

A little boy named Dula wants to be the fastest runner. He works skinning fish and, each morning, along with the other child laborers, he tries to win and get to his job first. Sometimes he does it, but not always, depending on whether he had anything to eat the night before. This book provides an excellent way to discuss poverty and its consequences in other countries.

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

Visión de conjunto del formalismo, sus perspectivas teóricas y sus relaciones conceptuales con otras corrientes del pensamiento crítico.