Guerra absoluta

Entre un libro y otro libro, entre una obra de arte y otra, entre los conceptos estéticos y los literarios, existen pasadizos; pasajes subterráneos conocidos unas veces, secretos en la mayoría. Este ensayo toma la forma de una linterna, para abrirse paso por esos corredores. Dice Paul De Man en Visión y ceguera que “la modernidad existe en la forma de un deseo de borrar todo lo que vino antes, con la esperanza de llegar a un punto final que pueda ser llamado el verdadero presente, un punto de origen que marque un nuevo punto de partida”. Ese punto de partida es también el de este...

Conjunto de artículos de críticos literarios y de arte de distintas nacionalidades y procedentes de distintas universidades europeas y americanas que analizan de manera global la obra literaria y artística de Eielson.

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...