Sobre la escritura. Francis Scott Fitzgerald

A través de la lectura de los autorretratos de Rembrandt o de la pintura de Van Gogh, de las esculturas de Brancusi, de la obra de Miquel Barceló, Dégas, Leon Kossoff, Miguel Ángel, Antonioni, Giorgio Morandi o Frida Kahlo, el autor aventura algunos pasos hacia una pequeña teoría de lo visible, incitando a la resistencia contra la inhumanidad del nuevo orden económico mundial.

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...

Artesana de sí misma reevalua el lugar de Gabriela Mistral, premio Nobel de literatura, en la historia literaria e intelectual de America Latina. Cabello Hutt acerca a los lectores a la amplia, pero escasamente estudiada, prosa periodistica de Mistral ademas de un conjuncto de manuscritos, cartas e imagenes provenientes de archivas norteamericanos y chilenos así como del recientemente abierto archivo de su albacea y companera, Doris Dana. Artesana de sí misma explora mas alla de la ampliamente estudiada poesia de Mistral y demuestra que su prosa, representacion visual y performatividad de...

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...