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People on the Prowl
This collection of imaginative and innovative short stories by Chilean author Jaime Collyer (b. Santiago, 1955) takes readers into a world unlimited by time and space. Cannibals and military dictators, Sigmund Freud and the world chess champion are some of the varied and surprising characters his narration brings to life. A gifted and impeccable writer, Collyer is well aware of the sociopolitical implications of his unfettered and humorous parodies of Europe and South America.
Fulgor
En esta espléndida novela, Jaime Collyer nos conduce con destreza por la fragilidad y los misterios insondables de la mente humana.
Humanities
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
A World Torn Apart
This collection of essays derives from a conference on Violence, Culture and Identity held in St Andrews in June 2003. It is a contribution to the understanding of representations of violence in Latin American narrative. The collected essays are dedicated to the study of the problematic history of violence as a means of 'civilizing' the region: violence used by dictatorial regimes to eradicate the collective memory of their actions; violence as a result of the history of marginalizing segments of the population; sexual violence as an attempt at complete control of the victim. The essays establish a clear link between historical, political and literary constructs spanning the past five hundred years of Latin American history. Close readings of political texts, historical documents, prose, poetry and films employ identity theories, postcolonial discourse, and the principles of mimetic and sacrificial violence. The volume adds to the ongoing critical investigation of the relationship between Latin American history and narrative, and to the key role of representations of violence within that narrative tradition.
Swingers
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The Secret of Evil
A collection that gathers everything Bolano was working on before his untimely death. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation’s political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to readers of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666) recounts the loss of her virginity. Arturo Belano returns to Mexico City and meets the last disciples of Ulises Lima, who play in a band called The Asshole of Morelos. Belano’s son Gerónimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005. Memories of a return to the native land. Argentine writers as gangsters. Zombie schlock as allegory... The various pieces in the posthumous Secret of Evil extend the intricate, single web that is the work of Roberto Bolano.
The Untimely Present
The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to unique and revealing practices of mourning that pervade the literature of this region. The theory of postdictatorial writing developed here is informed by a rereading of the links between mourning and mimesis in Plato, Nietzsche's notion of the untimely, Benjamin's theory of allegory, and psychoanalytic / deconstructive conceptions of mourning. Avelar starts by offering new readings of works produced be...
Gente al acecho
Es un conjunto de 16 cuentos, cuya temática oscila entre el género histórico, lo erótico y la temática psicológica. Incluye algunos relatos premiados en certámenes internacionales (entre ellos, un cuento galardonado por la edición ibérica de la revista Playboy). El volumen fue traducido al inglés y publicado en los EEUU, suscitando la acogida muy favorable de la crítica local. Ha sido acreedor a los principales galardones que hoy se otorgan en Chile a obras publicadas, como el premio del Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura y el Premio Municipal de Santiago. “Un gran creador de mundos literarios. Un observador apasionado de lo inquietante, un provocador de las nuevas generaciones latinoamericanas”. Jorge Edwards, PREMIO CERVANTES “Predomina en sus narraciones la cualidad en extremo civilizada de su intelecto, desafiando abiertamente a nuestra imaginación, pero también aflora en ellas, no pocas veces, una faceta resueltamente conmovedora”. Frank Wilson, THE NEWYORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Albricia
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La fidelidad presunta de las partes
Una novela escrita con brillantez, que hurga en las profundidades para descubrir el cariz tragicómico de nuestra existencia.
