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"The Self of the City shows Macedonio's work to be a highly systematic effort to "save the city" from the ills of modernity. Responding directly to the context of early twentieth-century Buenos Aires, Macedonio rejects modern culture as inherently paradoxical and pernicious, hinging on the unsustainable fallacy of Descartes' autonomous self."
Viewing stories and novels from an ethnographic perspective, Eduardo González here explores the relationship between myth, ritual, and death in writings by Borges, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, and Roa Bastos. He then weaves this analysis into a larger cultural fabric composed of the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, Benjamin, H. G. Wells, Kafka, Poe, and others. What interests González is the signature of authorial selfhood in narrative and performance, which he finds willfully and temptingly disfigured in the works he examines: horrific and erotic, subservient and tyrannical, charismatic and repellent. Searching out the personal image and plot, González uncovers two fundamental types of ...
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A sequel to Santana's acclaimed Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility, Ghosts of El Grullo follows Yolanda Sahagún as she struggles to find her place in her family and the world.
A través de la mirada de un joven que quiere ser escritor -a caballo entre la crónica, el cuento, la epístola, el diario, la autobiografía y las memorias-, en este libro se narran las vicisitudes cotidianas; las tradiciones y costumbres; los movimientos estudiantiles; las catástrofes naturales y sociales; las tragedias familiares; la apropiación y la decadencia, ecológica y social, de los espacios citadinos; la violencia contra las mujeres y las desigualdades de género; la delincuencia y la inseguridad; las formas de sociabilidad; y las aspiraciones y frustraciones en las vidas invisibilizadas -por los medios y el discurso oficial- de habitantes de los sectores bajo y medio de la hoy...