Border Crossings

En este ensayo se aventura que mediante la reconfiguración del motivo del cuerpo insepulto Revueltas nos lleva a sopesar la diferencia mínima y al mismo tiempo abismal que divide al uno y al mismo objeto de sí mismo, ejercicio que a un tiempo nos coloca en el núcleo radicalmente inhumano del sujeto y en la incomunicación natal del lenguaje. Revueltas se ocupa narrativamente de las burocracias comunistas (bajo sus formas de Estado y partido), pero sus formulaciones literarias bien pueden aplicarse a las democracias que dejan el paso franco a la tortura y la desaparición, persiguen la...

This collection of essays presents views on Don Quijote by noted Latin American philosophers, historians, sociologists, poets, and novelists. It intends to make the student of Hispanic culture aware of the profound love and admiration that Hispanic America has always demonstrated toward Cervantes and his masterpiece. Until now, the contributions of Latin American intellectuals to Cervantine studies have largely been ignored in publications in the United States. Written in Spanish, this text will be useful to the student and scholar of Hispanic literature and Latin American Studies.

El prestigioso filólogo Francisco López Estrada se ocupa de la obra de Cristobal de Monroy y Silva, hidalgo y escritor alcalareño del siglo XVII, que cultivó tanto la poesía como la prosa y el teatro. El autor aborda el estudio global del escritor, llevando a la par a cabo un detenido análisis de su particular versión de Fuente Ovejuna.

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...