Ommi! L'America

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...

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...

Las novelas de Dostoiewski parten de una experiencia vivida dramaticamente y que el autor transforma magistralmente en una ficcion que no deja de ser siempre un trasunto de la realidad. Este realismo es el que caracteriza a El adolescente, novela que tiene como principal protagonista a un joven ruso que admira u odia a su padre segun sean las influencias contradictorias que recibe. La vida del adolescente y de un retablo de personajes, maravillosamente caracterizados por Dostoiewski, que bullen en torno de el, va creando un crescendo en la novela, que es lo que mueve al lector a no abandonar...

Estos divertidos cuentos de Jordi Sierra i Fabra, protagonizados por animales en peligro de extinción, encantarán a los más pequeños. Con las fichas incluidas al final que se acompañan de espectaculares fotografías aprenderán, además, a conocerlos y cuidarlos. Tortugas, pingüinos, tigres, ballenas y muchos animales más nadan, saltan y vuelan por las páginas de este precioso libro.