Jorge Eduardo Eielson

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

Durante el siglo XIX el alma romántica, en la cercanía del espíritu positivista, produjo nuevas formas de figurar el mundo, formas contradictorias pero plenas de hallazgos mecánicos y literarios. En esta obra la autora reflexiona sobre la maquinaria práctica y el andamiaje intelectual de los primeros ilusionistas y sus conexiones con un puñado de autores que transformaron la sensibilidad poética de la cultura occidental: Nerval, Balzac, Mallarmé y Rimbaud.

En este ensayo, el genial Raymond Chandler critica a los escritores que escriben novelas policiales como si hicieran chorizos, aquellos que han convertido al género policial en el lado B de la literatura. Con su particular humor, Chandler rescata las mejores herramientas para crear algo más profundo que un simple enigma y reivindica la obra de Dashiell Hammett, su autor más admirado, creador de los asesinatos más interesantes del mundo.

Mariselle Melendez studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). She analyzes elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary by means of the voices of his two narrators: the Spanish Visitador Alonso Carrio de la Vandera and his companion and amanuensis, Calixto Bustamente Carlos Inca. Melendez shows how racial and cultural hybridity...