Guasanas

“I hate literary letters, carefully drafted, copied over and over; I sit at the typewriter and let the vast river of thoughts and affection flow,” Julio Cortázar wrote in 1942: a statement he lived by. In these letters, which read like a personal diary, autobiography and «binnacle» for his books, we glimpse the making of an unmistakable style. Ever-inquisitive, Cortázar delves into every aspect of his efforts as a writer, his political restlessness and personal ups-and-downs. He sums up each day, comments on what he reads, hears and sees, and recounts his adventures as a translator,...

Ensayo sobre aspectos relativos a la posición de la mujer en la sociedad actual, tales como mujer y trabajo, la mujer en la política, la mujer en el hogar, maltrato de género y custodia de los hijos.

Desde una perspectiva en la que confluyen literatura, género y medioambiente, se efectúa un recorrido por la literatura ecofeminista chicana a través de las obras que renombradas autoras de esta ascendencia –Ana Castillo, Lucha Corpi, Helena María Viramontes y Cherríe Moraga– publicaron a lo largo de la última década del siglo XX. Desde un análisis que tiene en cuenta categorías de desigualdad como el género, la clase o la raza, se lleva a cabo un enfoque interseccional que denuncia las múltiples formas de discriminación de las que son víctimas sus protagonistas. Asimismo, la ...

"In August 1592, a sheriff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Fray Juan de la Cruz, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, who died the year before, to his final abode in Segovia. When they find him 'incorrupt and as fresh as when he died,' there is an ecstatic fervor for the friar's body...all kinds of adventures and misfortunes happen, with characters that seem to be drawn from mythological deeds. The story told by Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully intertwines with the friar's verses, as if they had prophesied the delirium...