Voces del "boom"

"Es tan ligero discurrir por las páginas de esta novela como estimulante sentir el pellizco intermitente de la vida que late en ella". "Lo que callamos muestra al lector un comienzo para quienes consideran necesario arrojarse a las verdades personales sin rencor, rechazo, soberbia ni prepotencia". "El espejo poliédrico da vueltas, te deslumbra, te hiere, te indigna, te ablanda". "Mediante giros en el ámbito ficticio, provoca el escalofrío más profundo". "Testimonio sobrecogedor del hambre, el frío, la pobreza, la impotencia de una protagonista que defiende su dignidad". "Una autora...

“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,...

¿Expresa la globalización el imperialismo de Occidente o es un fenómeno que arrinconará a Europa y a Estados Unidos? ¿Seremos todos iguales o persistirán las diferencias? ¿Qué ocurrirá con la democracia y los derechos humanos? Son algunas de las preguntas que recorren este volumen y donde se enfrentan Gilles Lipovetsky y Hervé Juvin. Como un defensor de la globalización se presenta Lipovetsky; no afirma que sea un régimen bueno por sí mismo; alega simplemente que es el único que hay porque no hay otro capaz de sustituirlo. Lipovetsky es el pesimista, obligado a desarrollar un...

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