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La Oscura Escalera
La Oscura Escalera, podr�a muy bien tener la siguiente dedicatoria: "Dedico este libro a todos los que no vivieron para contarlo, y que por favor me perdonen por no haberlo visto todo, por no recordar todo, y por no poder decirlo todo". Palabras de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn en la primera edici�n de su Archipi�lago Gulag. La novela es una parodia de la sociedad cubana, del periodo de tiempo entre los a�os 1959 hasta los a�os 90 del siglo pasado. La narraci�n manipula la estructura del infierno con que Dante Alighieri narr�, en la primera parte de la Divina Comedia, su Infierno. Es un di�logo intenso y de evocaci�n entre dos amigos y su conversaci�n con todos los "condenados" ...
Reception and Renewal in Modern Spanish Theatre, 1939-1963
The book constitutes the first attempt to provide an overview of the reception of foreign drama in Spain during the Franco dictatorship. John London analyses performance, stage design, translation, censorship, and critical reviews in relation to the works of many authors, including Noel Coward, Arthur Miller, Eugene Ionesco, and Samuel Beckett. He compares the original reception of these dramatists with the treatment they were given in Spain. However, his study is also a reassessment of the Spanish drama of the period. Dr London argues that only by tracing the reception of non-Spanish drama can we understand the praise lavished on playwrights such as Antonio Buero Vallejo and Alfonso Sastre, alongside the simultaneous rejection of Spanish avant-garde styles. A concluding reinterpretation of the early plays of Fernando Arrabal indicates the richness of an alternative route largely ignored in histories of Spanish theatre.
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel
The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel provides an accessible introduction to an important World literature. While many of the authors covered—Aira, Bolaño, Castellanos Moya, Vásquez—are gaining an increasing readership in English and are frequently taught, there is sparse criticism in English beyond book reviews. This book provides the guidance necessary for a more sophisticated and contextualized understanding of these authors and their works. Underestimated or unfamiliar Spanish American novels and novelists are introduced through conceptually rigorous essays. Sections on each writer include: *the author's reception in their native country, Spanish America, and Spain *biographical history *a critical examination of their work, including key themes and conceptual concerns *translation history *scholarly reception The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.
Escalera de piedra
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Writing and the Revolution
Through a close reading of eight Venezuelan novels published between 2004 and 2012, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela’s literary isolation.
Salt in the Sand
Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of military glory during the period of national conquest, of labor strikes and massacres in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, and of state detention and violence during World War II and the Cold War. It was also the site of a mass-grave excavation that galvanized the national human rights movement in 1990, during Chile’s transition from dictatorship to democracy. Frazier analyzes the cre...
Escalera de sol
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Una escalera al cielo
Este conjunto de relatos tiene como escenario común a la ciudad de Bogotá, una urbe de más de siete millones de habitantes, que reúne las tensiones, conflictos y contradicciones de toda gran ciudad. El autor se detiene en la peripecia vital de sus habitantes para tejer historias que ponen de manifiesto la búsqueda permanente de las personas por construir su vida en medio de un ambiente con frecuencia muy adverso y marcado por un ritmo vertiginoso. Algunos personajes buscan salir de la precariedad y cambiar radicalmente de vida; otros, como una mujer en estado de coma que descubre el amor, no resiste la posibilidad de ser feliz; un grupo de taxistas decide oponerse a la amenaza continua de los delincuentes haciendo justicia por su mano. A medida que avanza cada relato, el lector advierte que estas historias son el retrato de la vida en las grandes ciudades.
