Estereotipos interculturales germano-españoles

Lo que ante todo me propongo es compartir una lectura actual del ya centenario Martín Fierro, una lectura conforme a vigentes concepciones de la naturaleza y función de la lengua literaria. Pretendo mostrar cómo se presenta hoy el poema de José Hernández a lectores entrenados en la lectura de ficciones. Luego, y en reconocimiento de la relatividad de esta lectura pretensamente fiel al texto, refiero a la acogida que él tuvo en Argentina durante sus primeros cincuenta años.

El oficio solía permitirle al editor el lujo de enfocarse exclusivamente en el libro: alguna vez pudo limitarse a leer, encontrar nuevos talentos y consagrar, por medio de su catálogo, lo que le parecía indispensable aportar a la cultura. Hoy el editor aún considera factores culturales antes de tomar una decisión respecto a qué publicar; sin embargo —para bien, para mal—, a ese tren de decisiones ahora se suman aspectos económicos, administrativos, legales, logísticos, tecnológicos, políticos, inclusive. No basta encontrar un manuscrito deslumbrante: hay que saber vender ese...

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him ...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...