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"Las generaciones literarias son incómodas como respuestas pero inevitables como preguntas. Esta antología plantea la pregunta por una nueva generación literaria con avidez. Una pregunta que se respondió demasiado pronto, y acaso precipitadamente, en el Chile post-dictadura de los '90. Una pregunta que permanece abierta, todavía sin cuajar, respecto de los narradores que empezaron a publicar en esa década. Una pregunta que se abre nuevamente, en estos extendidos prolegómenos del siglo XXI, a través de un conjunto pujante de nuevos escritores de los cuales se quiere dar una muestra sucinta en este volumen. Desde luego no es claro que los una nada. Pero los temas del desamparo, la dificultad de establecer relaciones duraderas, la banalidad de los medios de comunicación y una cierta desconfianza en la literatura, sobre todo la pomposa y engolada, son algunos de los rasgos que parecen recorrer el conjunto de los relatos. Antes de que el tiempo de su respuesta definitiva, será el lector el encargado de elegir qué caminos le interesa recorrer, a qué autores acompañar, y por qué. Pablo Torche, escritor
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A novel written as a sharp parable of American society, addressing love, purpose, discrimination, and poverty. In Jeffrey Lewis's novel of the same name, the Land of Cockaigne, once an old medieval peasants' vision of a sensual paradise on earth, is reimagined as a plot on the coast of Maine. In efforts to assuage their grief over their son's death and to make meaning of his life, Walter Rath and Catherine Gray build what they hope will be a version of paradise for a group of young men from the Bronx. As Walter and Catherine work to reinvent this land, formerly a summer resort, the surrounding town of Sneeds Harbor proves resistant. The residents' well-meaning doubts lead to well-hidden thre...
For almost eighty years, researchers seeking governmental and political information on countries around the globe have turned to Political Handbook of the World for the most authoritative and complete presentation of facts and analysis. CQ Press welcomes this renowned publication to its list of acclaimed reference sources, bringing its many current devotees - and future users - a new edition for 2005 - 2006, with a commitment to continuing the editorial integrity that has become the hallmark of this resource since its initial publication in 1928. Political Handbook of the World provides thorough and accurate information on the major aspects of each country's governmental and political compos...
A focus on reasons for action and practical reason is the perspective chosen by many contemporary legal philosophers for the analysis of some central questions of their discipline. This book offers a critical evaluation of that approach, by carefully examining the empirical, logical and normative problems hidden behind the concepts of `reason for action' and `practical reasoning'. Unlike most other works in this field, it is a meta-theoretical study which analyses and compares how different theories use the notion of reason in their reconstruction of problems concerning issues such as normativity, the acceptance of norms, or the justification of judicial decisions. This book is directed primarily to scholars specializing in legal theory and concerned with the contribution practical philosophy can make to it, but it also contains important arguments and insights for all those interested in the controversy between legal positivists and their critics, in the theory of human action or in reason-based practical theories in general.