9 de abril de 1948

En el siglo XX, la comunicaci n ha experimentado una revoluci n s lo comparable al avance en la gen tica. la publicidad renueva constantemente sus principios y a n los pa ses totalitarios la requieren por su car cter mediador entre lo que produce y lo que se consume. Publicidad y comunicaci n ofrece un panorama completo sobre el fen meno.

This book proposes a renewed myth-critical approach to the so-called ‘wasteland modernism’ of the 1920s to reassess certain key texts of the American modernist canon from a critical prism that offers new perspectives of analysis and interpretation. Myth-criticism and, more specifically, the critical survey of myth as an aesthetic and ideological strategy fundamental for the comprehension of modernist literature, leads to an engaging discussion about the disenchantment of myth in modernist literary texts. This process of mythical disenchantment, inextricable from the cultural and...

De origen muy humilde, entró en contacto con la literatura como obrero tipógrafo y corrector de pruebas. Los relatos de este volumen son prueba de su pericia como cuentista. “Un hombre célebre” narra la historia de un compositor frustrado, pese a su enorme éxito, debido a que las populares polcas que concibe carecen de la llama del genio. La obra más famosa de Machado de Assis, considerado un clásico de la lengua portuguesa, es Memorias póstumas de Bras Cubas (1881).

“I hate literary letters, carefully drafted, copied over and over; I sit at the typewriter and let the vast river of thoughts and affection flow,” Julio Cortázar wrote in 1942: a statement he lived by. In these letters, which read like a personal diary, autobiography and «binnacle» for his books, we glimpse the making of an unmistakable style. Ever-inquisitive, Cortázar delves into every aspect of his efforts as a writer, his political restlessness and personal ups-and-downs. He sums up each day, comments on what he reads, hears and sees, and recounts his adventures as a translator,...