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Los ensayos reunidos en este volumen se concentran en la producción de narrativa de ficción, novela y cuento, y ofrecen una cobertura amplia de esta producción desde el año 1920 al año 2000. Los ensayos han sido distribuidos en tres secciones. El material de la primera ofrece lo que normalmente entendemos como una forma reconocible de presentar el origen y desarrollo de la narrativa contemporánea en el Perú. Se trata, en gran medida, de asuntos, géneros, obras y autores a partir de los cuales se ha definido el canon de esta narrativa a lo largo de las décadas de 1920 y 1970. La...

Laura asks her father whether or not various animals fart like people do and he tries to imagine if the animals do or not.

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...

Kennedy Waters lives in a world where vengeful spirits kill, ghosts keeps secrets, and a devil walks among the people...a devil she unwittingly liberated. Now Kennedy and the other members of the Legion must hunt it down. As she learns more about the Legion and the Illuminati, she begins to understand that her family hides the biggest mystery. With the clock ticking down and the life of someone she loves hanging by a thread, she must ask herself what in her past has left her unmarked.