La poética interior de Octavio Paz. (Variables poéticas)

Uno de los ensayos más célebres de George Orwell, en el que disecciona el ambiente social y literario en la Europa de los años treinta. En el vientre de la ballena es un ensayo dividido en tres partes donde el autor emplea el relato bíblico de Jonás y la ballena para ejemplificar la actitud conformista imperante en los años treinta, periodo caracterizado por la pasividad e indiferencia ante las graves circunstancias políticas y sociales que se vivían entonces. Tras un turbulento comienzo de siglo marcado por la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revolución Rusa y la Guerra Civil española, y ...

Los diálogos ágiles y anticonvencionales, el peculiar universo interior de sus personajes, la soledad y la melancolía que colman su universo literario, aunado a su sentido del humor muchas veces macabro y cínico, hacen de la obra de Elena Garro una de las más importantes del siglo XX en México.

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...