Thomas Merton

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...

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...

El Enemigo de los Thirties Autor: Juan Arabia Editorial: BUENOSAIRES POETRY Año de Edición: 2015 Idioma: Español Nº Páginas: 74 ISBN: 9789874576125

En un esfuerzo por transformar la lectura de poesía este libro visita diversos tiempos y regiones, considerando que el presente ilumina retrospectivamente la mirada anticipatoria de los poetas mayores. La poesía conceptual de Martín Gubbins (Chile), Mario Montalbetti (Perú) y Andrés Anwandter (Chile) revela nexos entre lenguaje y capitalismo y nos recuerda la profundidad de la crisis que vivimos. La obra plástica y escrita del peruano Jorge Eduardo Eielson opera, en los años sesenta, una crítica de la modernidad funcionalista y desencarnada. Ofrece, además, una alternativa a la...