12 articles in this issue
Patricia Espinosa Hernández
This article addresses the exercise of literary criticism in Chile in the context of the increasingly complex practices of denial of dissent. The non-acceptance of difference that entraps the Chilean society eliminates the discordances by avoiding discour... see more
Martín Lombardo
Based on some psychoanalytic concepts developed by Sigmund Freud, this article analizes literary texts by Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Enrique Vila-Matas, who focus their stories on the passage into madness. This texte analyzes the representati... see more
Ramón Alvarado Ruiz
The violence and the sorrow derived from diverse social events is one of the subject matters in the Mexican narrative of the XXIst century. It is not a coincidence or it isn't new, if we take a look into the last century there are great the violent events... see more
Ellen Maria Martins de Vasconcellos
In Bajo este sol tremendo, by Carlos Busqued (2009), the first thing to note is that the fictional narrative is built with references to the media, mainly television documentaries exhibited in Discovery and History Channel. And not just the topics but aud... see more
Natalia Alejandra Anabalon
In this article it is analyzed differents manifestations of memories, testimonies, witness, horror and violence that can be found in the novel Estrellas Muertas of the writer Álvaro Bisama, novel that is a song of the postdictatorship in Chile. It d... see more
Daniela Alejandra Fernández Arriagada
With the publication of Correr el tupido velo (2009,) we can access to fragments of Jose Donoso’s diary; on the other hand, Diario de una pasajera (1997) is the record of Agata Gligo’s last days of life. This autobiographic texts are understood by their a... see more
Kevin Andrés Pérez Méndez
This essay analyzes the problems in Clarice Lispector's narrative, specifically in her novel The Hour of the Star (1977), concerning the ways of writing fiction and the organization of the narrative instances in a story. The author aims to show how The Ho... see more
Marco Chandía Araya
This work studies the novel Hombres de mar from the conjugation of the Latin American recent urban and literary phenomena. The stage is the city-port of Chimbote. The discourse is a narration that assumes the conflict of powers between the interests of ca... see more
Nelly Richard
Review of Replicas by Diamela Eltit
Amy Cosimini
Review of Regina Dalcastagnè
Fernando Moreno Turner
Review of Eugenia Prado
Alejandra Wolff
Review of Nicolás Poblete