Habanas

Se ha afirmado que estamos en la era posmoderna. Estallido de lo social, disolucin de lo poltico: el individuo es el rey y maneja su existencia a la carta? La era del vaco ausculta esta mutacin esencial, investigando los rasgos significativos de los tiempos actuales, tan alejados de la rebelin y el disentimiento caractersticos de los aos de expansin. Este anlisis, tan agudo como alejado de los cliss, se desarrolla a lo largo de seis estudios: Seduccin non stop, La indiferencia pura, Narciso o la estrategia del vaco, Modernismo y posmodernismo, La sociedad humorstica y Violencia salvajes,...

“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,...

Covering nearly every human interest that can determine the course of a life, this collection explores the attitudes and ideologies at work in society. Whether considering individuals or society at large, issues such as satisfaction and frustration, ambition and failure, happiness and sorrow are frequently determined by the attitude adopted toward politics and love.

"Con esta selección de 31 poemas -'A Julia de Burgos,' 'Río Grande de Loíza,' 'Casi alba,' 'Dadme mi número,' 'Poema para mi muerte' - destinada al público español, de la Puebla recoge lo mejor y más representativo de Julia, a quien compara con Martí y Sor Juana en el prólogo. Contiene una útil introducción a la vida (trágica) y a la obra ('un fuerte, doloroso e intenso proceso interior') de la poeta puertorriqueña"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.