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Este volumen recoge diferentes zonas del intenso debate crítico que suscita, a una y otra orilla del Atlántico, la reflexión sobre los modos de producción, circulación y recepción de las narrativas latinoamericanas y españolas del siglo XXI. Por un lado, ofrece un análisis de conjunto, por campos nacionales y regionales, de las distintas manifestaciones del objeto literario actual, en función de sus temas, problemas y estéticas más visibles. Por otro, aborda sus materialidades y formas de recepción (ediciones, distribución y lecturas) en campos tan importantes como los de Estados ...

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...

El idiota - protagoista de este libro - es el sujeto alternativo que sobrevive a la crisis de la antropología, la disolución del sujeto o la así llamada "muerte del hombre" que fué declarada por los filósofos estructuralistas franceses.

Candela always passes in front of a house covered with vines on her way home from school. The old mansion has been abandoned for so long that it must be concealing some sort of mystery. She has kept her distance, fearfully quickening her pace, but today a disturbing detail has called her attention: the glass door to the first-floor balcony is ajar. And if that isn't enough, she also seems to hear a whispering voice. Is there someone in the house? Curiosity can be more powerful than fear, and Candela obeys her instinct and crosses the threshold to find out who--or what--is hiding within.