Download or read book Ecos de Amor Recuerdos y Muerte written by Juan Antonio Lezama and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecos de Amor, Recuerdos y Muerte La memoria, el tiempo y la distancia son elementos que el escritor usa como recursos para que Mauricio, un profesor de antropología, y protagonista de la historia, intenta esclarecer la muerte de Memo, su amigo homosexual de la infancia y juventud, extrañamente ocurrida en su pueblo natal, donde los prejuicios homofóbicos, la intolerancia política y social prevalecen fuertemente arraigados. Aunado a esto, se suma su preocupación por los resultados de estudios médicos, debido a la inestable salud de José Manuel, su pareja, alterando aun más el ritmo de hasta ese momento, su rutinaria y organizada vida. Mezclando recuerdos, búsquedas, sinsabores y muerte, el autor logra llevar de la mano al lector por diferentes rutas para llegar a la verdad.

Download or read book The Open Work written by Umberto Eco and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is significant for its concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its anticipation of two themes of literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interaction between reader and text.

Download or read book The Book And The Brotherhood written by Iris Murdoch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Years earlier the friends had persuaded David to write a philosophical and political book on their behalf. But opinions and loyalties have changed, and on this summer evening the long-resting ghosts of the past come careering back into the present.

Download or read book The Coast of Chicago written by Stuart Dybek and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-04-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with grand leaps of imagination, The Coast of Chicago is a masterpiece from one of America's most highly regarded writers.

Download or read book The Key to The Name of the Rose written by Adele J. Haft and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unravels Umberto Eco's classic mystery novel

Download or read book El Placer de Divagar written by Beatriz Cáceres and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No es otra cosa que un sueño que se amarra a tu piel, y en su brillo de estrella te transporta a un universo de emociones. Donde el amor, la soledad, la tristeza, la ausencia, la euforia...se conjugan de manera que realicen el milagro de convertirlo en una realidad. Que simplemente no es otra que el propio placer de poder escribir...de poder transmitir a través de la palabra, poder darle forma, cuerpo...a todos las emociones que nos recorren el alma.

Download or read book Voz de La Nostalgia written by Maria Aduke Alabi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuando la tranquilidad se torna dominante y mi entorno fecundo, estalla con voz armoniosa y envolvente la nostalgia. Entonces llega la musa como sol naciente. Y de mi pluma brotan versos que hacen del papel un gorrión que hará de su canto mi poesía. Pasa un día y otro día. Vuelvo a escuchar la triste voz que me pone en manos de la tristeza. Planto otros versos que se vuelven poesía. Así pasan los días. Así nacen las musas. Esta obra es la esencia nostálgica que brota del rincón de mi existencia, las que presento en versos los que quizás muchos ojos leerán y al hacerlo no verán, mas mi voz gritara aunque quizás no se oiga, tal vez porque soy la simple lagrima que comienza a recorrer a ciegas y en la oscuridad los senderos de una faz desconocida. En cada uno de estos poemas me encuentro, porque cada uno formo parte de mi ser en algún momento de mi vida y en algún instante de mi vida fueron mi vida en ese instante. Quiero con esta obra remover los sentimientos más ocultos y darles vida, haciendo sentir en ellos la eternidad del instante, dejando sentir vibrante las luces de cada verso, casi cegante, expuestos sobre papel, tal vez tímidos y temerosos de que los ojos no los miren y las almas no los sientan. Voz de la nostalgia, tal vez no sea más que la migración de mi vida a la muerte, hacia tristes pasiones posiblemente absurdas, ya que evaden las finalidades de los hombres; mi meta no es negar la felicidad ni omitirla, sino simplemente despertar esa sensibilidad que yace bajo la corteza ruda de los mas apesadumbrados seres, presentándoles aquella soledad que se ahoga en el silencio y nos hace sus víctimas, aquellos sentimientos que queman el alma y que han quemado el corazón de muchos hombres. Este sin número de voces son ecos del alma con los que comparto sentimientos ajenos y propios que deseo hacer latir en otros corazones.

Download or read book Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Diana Gabaldon returns with the “vast and sweeping” (The Washington Post) newest novel in the epic Outlander series. War leaves nobody alone. Neither the past, the present, nor the future offers true safety, and the only refuge is what you can protect: your family, your friends, your home. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years of loss and heartbreak to find each other again. Now it’s 1779, and Claire and Jamie are finally reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children, and are rebuilding their home on Fraser’s Ridge—a fortress that may shelter them against the winds of war as well as weather. But tensions in the Colonies are great: Battles rage from New York to Georgia and, even in the mountains of the backcountry, feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Jamie knows that loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long before the war is on his doorstep. Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family. Not so far away, young William Ransom is coming to terms with the mysteries of his identity, his future, and the family he’s never known. His erstwhile father, Lord John Grey, has reconciliations to make and dangers to meet on his son’s behalf and on his own, and far to the north, Young Ian Murray fights his own battle between past and future, and the two women he’s loved. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. Jamie sharpens his sword, while Claire whets her surgeon’s blade: It is a time for steel.

Download or read book Poemas Y Ensayos written by Manuel Quintero Vargas and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finding Afro Mexico written by Theodore W. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. Finding Afro-Mexico reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity. It traces the Mexican, African American, and Cuban writers, poets, anthropologists, artists, composers, historians, and archaeologists who integrated Mexican history, culture, and society into the African Diaspora after the Revolution of 1910. Theodore W. Cohen persuasively shows how these intellectuals rejected the nineteenth-century racial paradigms that heralded black disappearance when they made blackness visible first in Mexican culture and then in post-revolutionary society. Drawing from more than twenty different archives across the Americas, this cultural and intellectual history of black visibility, invisibility, and community-formation questions the racial, cultural, and political dimensions of Mexican history and Afro-diasporic thought.

Download or read book Pedro P ramo written by Juan Rulfo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Paramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with whispers and shadows--a place seemingly populated only by memory and hallucinations. 49 photos.

Download or read book The Book of Daniel written by E.L. Doctorow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life—marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus with his parents to the ill-fated Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill; watching the FBI take his father away; appearing with Susan at rallies protesting their parents’ innocence; visiting his mother and father in the Death House. It is a book of investigation: transcribing Daniel’s interviews with people who knew his parents, or who knew about them; and logging his strange researches and discoveries in the library stacks. It is a book of judgments of everyone involved in the case—lawyers, police, informers, friends, and the Isaacson family itself. It is a book rich in characters, from elderly grand- mothers of immigrant culture, to covert radicals of the McCarthy era, to hippie marchers on the Pen-tagon. It is a book that spans the quarter-century of American life since World War II. It is a book about the nature of Left politics in this country—its sacrificial rites, its peculiar cruelties, its humility, its bitterness. It is a book about some of the beautiful and terrible feelings of childhood. It is about the nature of guilt and innocence, and about the relations of people to nations. It is The Book of Daniel.

Download or read book The Scandal of the Century written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe.” --Dwight Garner, The New York Times From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction. "I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla . . . his longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's El País. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world."

Download or read book Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities written by Michael S. Kimmel and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook provides a broad view of masculinities primarily across the social sciences, but including important debates in areas of the humanities & natural sciences.

Download or read book Destellos De Sunset Lake written by Ángel M. Aguirre and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro es un tributo a la memoria de mi actriz dramática favorita: Susan Hayward, de descendencia sueco-irlandesa, y quien nació el 30 de junio de 1917 en el sector Flatbush de Brooklyn, Nueva York. Un agente en Hollywood le cambió el nombre, Edythe Marreenner, a Susan Hayward, porque Hayward era lo que consideraba más cercano al apellido de la famosa estrella Rita Hayworth. Durante su niñez vivió en la pobreza y a la sombra de su hermana mayor Florence, la favorita de su madre. Estudió en las escuelas públicas de Nueva York y aún niña, tras ser arrollada por un auto y recibir mala atención en el hospital del condado, quedó coja de una pierna, defecto que supo encubrir toda su vida, convirtiéndolo en su particular forma de andar, algo considerado “sexy” por sus admiradores, a quienes complacía también el tono bajo del registro de su voz..

Download or read book Reflections on the Name of the Rose written by Umberto Eco and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book which stems from the author's account of the genesis of his celebrated novel, The Name of the Rose, but which, like the novel itself, goes far beyond the particular. Eco's investigation of the mechanics of fiction expands into a debate that encompasses, in a small space, the workings of the imagination, the responsibilities of the novelist, and the blend of invention, research, and distilled commonsense that goes to make up the modern novel. Along the way, he touches on bad books, ideal readers, historical form, and the metaphysics of the detective story.

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