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A beautifully poetic and vivid satire of the hypocrisies of the Catholic Church. Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the rites at the Catholic church where he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in residence are the sexton Celeste Machado, his goddaughter Sabina Cruz, and three widows known collectively as the Lilias, who do the cooking and cleaning and provide charity meals for the local poor and needy. One Thursday, Father Almida and the sexton must rush off to meet the parish’s principal benefactor, Don Justiniano. It will be the first time in forty years Father Almida has not said mass. Eventually they find a replacement: Father Matamoros, a drunkard with a beautiful voice whose sung mass is spellbinding to all. The Lilias prepare a sumptuous meal for Father Matamoros, who persuades them to drink with him. Over the course of the long night the women and Tancredo lose their inhibitions and confess their sins and stories to this strange priest, and in the process re- veal lives crippled by hypocrisy.
A poet of both the body and spirit, the work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre often explores the nature of existence at the turn of the twenty-first century--humankind's relationship to itself and the universe, the meaning or purpose, if any, of human existence, and the daunting task of discerning that meaning. Critics have described his poetry as highly refined lyricism, metaphysical, existential, and at times erotic. Semantics of the World introduces the English-speaking world to the exciting work of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre, one of Colombia's most celebrated living writers. This selection of extraordinary poems, edited and translated by Nohora Arrieta Fernández and Mark A. Sanders, presents Bustos Aguirre's works in Spanish alongside their English translations and features the critical apparatus necessary for making Bustos Aguirre's poetry more accessible to students, scholars, and the general reading public. The volume offers the perfect introduction to Rómulo Bustos Aguirre and his poetry for critical and popular audiences throughout the Anglosphere.
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Este libro es el resultado de una investigación iniciada en 2014 alrededor de las relaciones entre literatura colombiana y violencia. No es cualquier otro estudio sobre este catastrófico tema del que muchos investigadores han aportado y reflexionado desde las humanidades y pocos desde la poesía. En este texto se desarrolla un análisis sobre la imagen poética, la lírica documental y las intenciones políticas en dos obras de la poesía testimonial colombiana. Se pone en el centro el trabajo de dos poetas quienes fueron asesinados en la época mencionada. Sus obras son clave en la emergencia de la poesía testimonial, en el contexto de la memoria histórica y el panorama político nacional, además nos permiten una apertura a leer otras formas poéticas contemporáneas en Colombia.
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Escritos en el tiempo es una selección de artículos periodísticos y columnas de opinión que tienen como eje central la literatura y su relación con la ciencia y la música, mostrando el lugar que ocupa la sensibilidad artística y literaria en la cultura general. Dentro de un centenar de artículos se destacan a grandes autores como George Orwell, Cyril Connolly y Gabriel García Márquez, así como escritores del boom literario latinoamericano y de nuestro país. Este es un libro para los lectores amantes de la literatura, pero también para aquellos que consideran el periodismo como un medio importante de comunicación y construcción social.
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