Shakespeare en la imaginación contemporánea. Revisiones y reescrituras de su obra

La mejor antología del maestro de la crónica. Carlos Monsiváis era a partes iguales figura mediática, escritor popular e intelectual imprescindible. Autor de una obra tan amplia como fascinante, inventó una forma de contar la realidad y dotó a la crónica y al ensayo periodístico de verdadero calado literario, como prueban las páginas que conforman esta antología, seleccionada por Jordi Soler en conversación con el propio Monsiváis. El título, Los ídolos a nado, un verso de Ramón López Velarde, lo eligió Monsiváis, quizá por su misteriosa sonoridad, y también porque...

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

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...

Desde Esteban Echeverría y Lucio V. Mansilla hasta Julio Cortázar, Roberto Arlt, Manuel Puig, Juan José Saer y Rodolfo Fogwill, el autor de Las Islas reflexiona sobre la identidad nacional a partir de los textos canónicos que la definieron.