Las heridas de la ausencia

Como de forma explícita recoge su título, Revisitando a Berceo: lecturas del siglo XXI, este volumen reúne un total de quince artículos de la pluma de otros tantos reconocidos investigadores de la literatura medieval y de la obra de Berceo en particular, que vuelven a analizar, desde la perspectiva crítica actual, las complejidades del poeta riojano. Los distintos trabajos abordan -revisitan- tanto las cuestiones que forman parte de la historia hermenéutica de los libros mayores de la producción berceana (Milagros de Nuestra Señora, Vida de santo Domingo de Silos, Poema de santa Oria) ...

Lucía, es una princesa, que tuvo que ser muy valiente para salvar a su papá el Rey y su Mamá la reina.

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...

Monterroso converts any memory into a theme for a story. In La vaca, the author filters daily experience until he obtains its essence. Through his talent for transforming life into a fable, he bestows on every creation the breath of simplicity with merciless and condescending humor. Once again and with sharp precision, Augusto Monterroso throws the darts of his wisdom in these twenty essays.