Sub specie aeternitatis

José Luis Matínez publicó en 1955, dentro de una colección que dirigían Octavio Paz y Carlos Fuentes, Problemas literarios, donde reunió diversos ensayos sobre técnica y teoría literarias, sociología de la novela, la Revolución Mexicana y la literatura, los problemas de la cultura literaria de México y el ensayo "Situación de la literatura mexicana contemporánea," escrito en 1948, cuando tenía 30 años, que motivó en su momento lo que él mismo denominó como "una escaramuza literaria," descrita en todo detalle al final del mismo. José Luis Martíneznació en Atoyac, Jalisco,...

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The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."