El primer novelista argentino

Un papel volandero cae en manos de Coco, Canela y Anís, como siempre, se ponen los tres a jugar e imaginar. ¿Cuántas cosas diferentes puede llegar a ser un simple papel? ...son tres que se quieren mucho, igual que la trucha al trucho...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

En un esfuerzo por transformar la lectura de poesía este libro visita diversos tiempos y regiones, considerando que el presente ilumina retrospectivamente la mirada anticipatoria de los poetas mayores. La poesía conceptual de Martín Gubbins (Chile), Mario Montalbetti (Perú) y Andrés Anwandter (Chile) revela nexos entre lenguaje y capitalismo y nos recuerda la profundidad de la crisis que vivimos. La obra plástica y escrita del peruano Jorge Eduardo Eielson opera, en los años sesenta, una crítica de la modernidad funcionalista y desencarnada. Ofrece, además, una alternativa a la...

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...