El radioteatro

Ningún docente con los que he compartido años de infancia y juventud tuvo la capacidad o voluntad de transmitirme la pasión por la lectura, todos ellos más obsesionados por la historia de la literatura, y el consiguiente atiborramiento de apuntes, nombres y títulos, que por la educación literaria o fomento de la sensibilidad lectora. La expresión «animación a la lectura» se ha ido manipulando y tergiversando poco a poco para el provecho de intereses divergentes. Sin embargo, «animar a leer» es un sinónimo de «sentido común», lo que significa que no se trata de refugiarse o...

Carlos Monsivais eligio la celebre linea de Pablo Neruda, Escribir, por ejemplo, como punto de partida y premisa para reunir diez textos dedicados a algunos de los creadores con quienes se siente en deuda como lector. De esto resultaron dos cronicas, referidas a Jaime Sabines y Jose Revueltas, y ocho ensayos, dedicados a Alfonso Reyes, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Augusto Monterroso, Ramon Lopez Velarde, Rosario Castellanos, Agustin Yanez y Julio Torri.

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

An examination of the form and significance of the 56 short narratives of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, based on a review of his own theoretical views on narrative, derived from his essays, prologues and vignettes, related in turn to theories of the modern novella developed by Gillespie et al.