“And to begin again it was the most repeated task in the world. In fact, only there was the Repetition: in the beginning», say the narrator of Un Episodio en la Vida del Pintor Viajero (An episode in the life of the traveling painter) of César Aira. The novel assumes the form of a biographySigue leyendo «The trade of traveler»
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The meaning of the discourse
In 1969 Jacques Lacan, after the rector of the École Normale Supérieure removed to him the Dussane room, begins, on November 26, a seminar «The reverse of psychoanalysis» in the amphitheater of the Faculty of Law. This year seals the beginning of the formalization of what will be known as the «theory of the fourSigue leyendo «The meaning of the discourse»
The journalistic ability to show reality
«The chronicle is the form of real story where prose weighs more: where writing weighs more.» Martín Caparrós (Argentinian writer) «Haiti. La Isla de la Fantasia (Haiti. The island of fantasy)» and «Lima. Perfume del Fin (Lima. Perfume of the end)», published in 1991 and 1992 respectively, are two of the chronicles written by CaparrosSigue leyendo «The journalistic ability to show reality»
The difficulty of expressing the disease
In Anthropology of Pain, David Le Breton defines the sensation of pain, in the first place, as an intimate and personal fact that escapes to any extent, to any attempt to isolate or describe it, to any desire to inform another about its intensity and its nature. For the French anthropologist pain is «a failureSigue leyendo «The difficulty of expressing the disease»
King Arthur. Knowing the origin of known stories
Mabinogion is a traditional term with which a collection of one-time stories written in Middle Welsh is known, that is, in Welsh that was written in Wales between 1100 and 1350. But the compilation itself is not medieval because it was written by the First translator of the English texts, Lady Charlotte Guest, in theSigue leyendo «King Arthur. Knowing the origin of known stories»
The power of the city over the individual and its influence on novels
Preterito Perfecto (Preterite perfect), the novel by writer Hugo Foguet, states that «The city is the sacred space where the fate of the characters is fulfilled». The author explains in an interview: «As for the city as a recurring factor, the habitat of modern man is the city, and the counterpoint between present and past,Sigue leyendo «The power of the city over the individual and its influence on novels»
The simulation of living
The ideology of consumption, the mediatization of everyday life and the advertising culture of “beauty and happiness” of the youth are the starting point of La Prueba (The Test) of César Aira. This short novel, published in 1992, is about Marcia, a virgin, shy and depressed teenager, who one day is questioned in the streetSigue leyendo «The simulation of living»
The feeling of the migrant
Jesús Urzagasti was born in 1941 in a small town located south of the Bolivian Grand Chaco. His life was marked by a series of displacements that had as goal to access to education. He lived in Yacuiba, Tarija, Salta until arriving, during the sixties, to the city of La Paz. At the headquarters ofSigue leyendo «The feeling of the migrant»
The city (Ciudad) farce
Written in 1966, La Ciudad (The City) is the first novel of the Involuntary Trilogy of the Uruguayan writer Mario Levrero. The print edition in book format appears in 1970. In La Ciudad, from the beginning, we enter that disturbing situation, where there are no clear marks of spatial or temporal references but we findSigue leyendo «The city (Ciudad) farce»
The loneliness of the dying
«The loneliness of the dying» of Norbert Elías, the only child of a Jewish marriage who fails to escape the machines of Nazi Germany. Elías abandons an ascending career of sociologist to devote himself to professional boxing. Then he will try other solutions. He will train as a therapist, study medicine and philosophy and afterSigue leyendo «The loneliness of the dying»
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