La poética dialógica de Bécquer

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...

Tras llegar al final de su maratón, el lector, mareado sin duda por las elucubraciones, las fantasías y los inventos tan inverosímiles como escandalosos de los oulipianos (incluso de los oulipianos disfrazados), se alegrará, pienso, al ver cómo se restaura la simple y sobria verdad histórica en torno al “caso Hugo Vernier”. Jacques Roubaud, del posfácio del libro. En 1979 Georges Perec publicó El viaje de invierno, un relato breve en el que cuenta la historia de un joven profesor de literatura que descubre un libro fascinante, llamado justamente El viaje de invierno, de un autor...

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...

Cuando a nuestra generación destruya el tiempo tú permanecerás, entre penas distintas de las nuestras, amiga de los hombres, diciendo: "La belleza es verdad y la verdad belleza"... Nada más se sabe en esta tierra y no más hace falta Jhon Keats, "A una urna griega"