El pandeo de la memoria

Este estudio toma como punto de partida los textos del autor argentino, revisa sus posibles influencias y pone el acento en la presencia en su obra de procedimientos formales asociados a su particular visión de la lengua.

Young Billy McLaughlin heads out to Tahoe, fresh out of college and ready to live out his vision of the good life. This involves skiing everyday, partying hard, playing some guitar, getting laid, and otherwise not worrying about a damn thing. Much to his surprise, the easy life doesn’t come so easy. That’s because the world of “the gods” is working down on him. The sex-hungry Clarissa, Goddess of the Hunt, is making his life a living hell while Jim, God of Good Beers and Friendship, is trying to pull him through. The story takes the reader for a ride through the ski-bum life in Tahoe...

Among the adventures of Odysseus, his encounter with the mysterious goddess Circe, who transforms the hero's companions into swine, has long been a favorite of readers. The combination of magic, metamorphosis, intrigue, seduction, and danger in this episode of the Odyssey make it particularly attractive and thought-provoking, so that many later authors mention or recreate it: Apollonius of Rhodes, Plutarch, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Lope, Calderon, etc. This book analyzes the tradition of the Homeric myth in western literature, from ancient Greece to the present day, with particular attention to...

«Tolerancia frente a intolerancia, libertad frente a tutela, humanismo frente a fanatismo, individualismo frente a mecanización, conciencia frente a violencia... Todos estos nombres expresan una opción que en última instancia es la más personal y la más íntima, la que para todo individuo resulta de mayor importancia: lo humano o lo político, la ética o la razón, el individuo o la comunidad.» Con estas palabras sella Stefan Zweig uno de sus libros más sugestivos e inquietantes, “Castellio contra Calvino”, revisión histórica de una controversia que trasciende las...