Tarde o temprano en la historia de cada colonia todas las paradojas de la identidad criolla se manifiestan como un problema cultural. Los intereses económicos de los criollos impulsan su independencia política de la antigua metrópoli y su conexión con las tierras...
Juan Rulfo is one of those authors famous for only a couple of books – his reputation rests on the short story collection El llano en llamas and the novel Pedro Páramo, both published in a burst of creativity in the 1950s. For an author whose terse style evokes a...
The poetry of Gabriela Mistral, who won the Nobel Prize in 1945, is very concrete, and generally it’s yoked to the Chilean landscape. Often her protagonists are women: on solitary journeys that might be a pilgrimage or an attempt at flight; stuck in landscapes...
Julio Ramón Ribeyro was a Peruvian author best known for his short stories; his work is enjoying a surge of attention in Peru on the 90th anniversary of his birth. Shopping in Lima I was torn between his collected stories, a formidable brick of a book, and his Prosas...
One nice thing about Ben’s work on the Real Pigeons series (Book 4 is out now) is that he and I now notice pigeons much more than we used to. There are lots of different pigeons in America, too – the little brown torcazas, with their feathers like scales,...
En El laberinto de soledad, Octavio Paz cita a una amiga mexicana; ella vive en California y reflexiona sobre la grieta entre idiomas, la manera que las palabras de distintas lenguas parecen cambiar las cosas que nombran. En Estados Unidos incluso los pájaros y...
