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La Parodia en la nueva novela hispanoamericana (1960?1985)
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1991; US$ 158.00In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective... more...
Utopía, paraíso e historia
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1986; US$ 98.00How did modern man come to believe in the object of the economy? What hopes made us accept scientific authority about this illusive thing? What kinds of persons were attracted by objective knowledge in economic discourse? And how does this knowledge guide our economic life? The Making of the Economy tackles such questions surrounding the modern notion... more...
Modern Latin American Literature
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 9.99In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario Vargas Llosa all became part of the general more...
The Whole Island
University of California Press 2009; US$ 70.00Cuba's cultural influence throughout the Western Hemisphere, and especially in the United States, has been disproportionally large for so small a country. This landmark volume is the first comprehensive overview of poetry written over the past sixty years. Presented in a beautiful Spanish-English en face edition, The Whole Island makes available... more...
Fictional First-Person Discourses in Cuban Diaspora Novels
The Edwin Mellen Press 2011; US$ 169.95This text is an examination of Cuban diasporic novels since 1980, critically examining the autobiographical elements of the novels and the authors who wrote them. It contributes to studying the particularities of Cuban literature produced by Cuban writers published beyond the nations boundaries. From the beginning the author defines the difference... more...
Selected Writings of Andres Bello
Oxford University Press, USA 1997; US$ 15.99Andres Bello was a towering figure in nineteenth-century Latin America, as influential and as famous there as Thomas Jefferson is in the United States. Poet, politician, educator, essayist, philosopher, he wielded astonishing influence and played a major role in shaping the national identities of newly independent Latin American countries. He held... more...
Oblivion
Old Street Publishing 2012; US$ 11.65The Number One Colombian Bestseller Oblivion is a memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. A work of deep feeling and consummate skill, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life, during one of... more...
Textual and Visual Selves
UNP - Nebraska Paperback 2011; US$ 25.00Autobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues of identity. Textual and Visual Selves investigates, from a variety of theoretical perspectives,... more...
Libri XI ? XX
De Gruyter 1981; US$ 84.00Libri XI XX (Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana). more...









