Arte de prudencia

Nothing can save Alex's life- that's what all the doctors say, but his mother knows it's not true. She knows that the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead can crack open a door to the afterlife, pulling her son back from the brink. When she uses the spells, five evil ancients -the Death Walkers- are also brought back to life, releasing an ancient evil.

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

¿Hay tantos que se han vuelto tan vulnerables a la dominación blanca que los caminos hacia el cambio imaginado se borran de nuestros cerebros y nuestras conciencias predeterminadas están en sus niveles más bajos de actividad, lo que significa que ya no podemos imaginar un nuevo tipo de futuro o incluso realmente ver lo que está sucediendo en nuestro presente? En un contexto mundial en el que ya no podemos dejar de observar el modo en que la intolerancia forma parte de nuestra vida cotidiana, ¿cómo acercarse al otro?, ¿cómo entablar una conversación?, ¿cómo romper con la aparente...

This study uses a novel by Guatemalan writer Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel prize, to analyze the construction of Guatemalan identity at the end of the 1940s and to consider the factors involved in representing a Third World country.