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Author: Olivia Laing Publisher: CAPITÁN SWING LIBROS ISBN: 8412182677 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : es Pages : 298
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¿Qué significa estar solo? ¿Cómo vivimos si no estamos íntimamente comprometidos con otro ser humano? ¿Cómo nos conectamos con otras personas? ¿La tecnología nos acerca más o nos aísla detrás de las pantallas? Cuando Olivia Laing se mudó a Nueva York, a los treinta y tantos años, se encontró habitando la soledad diariamente. Cada vez más fascinada por esta "vergonzosa" experiencia, comenzó a explorar la ciudad solitaria a través del arte. Moviéndose fluidamente entre las obras y las vidas de algunos de los artistas más atractivos de la ciudad (Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz), Laing ofrece una investigación eléctrica y deslumbrante sobre lo que significa estar solo, iluminando no solo las causas de la soledad, sino también cómo puede resistirse y redimirse. Humano, provocativo y conmovedor, este libro nos habla sobre los espacios entre las personas y las cosas que las unen, acerca de la sexualidad, la mortalidad y las posibilidades mágicas del arte. La ciudad solitaria es un deslumbrante trabajo de biografía, memorándum y crítica cultural y una celebración de un estado extraño y encantador, alejado del continente más grande de la experiencia humana, pero intrínseco al mismo acto de estar vivo.
Author: Olivia Laing Publisher: CAPITÁN SWING LIBROS ISBN: 8412182677 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : es Pages : 298
Book Description
¿Qué significa estar solo? ¿Cómo vivimos si no estamos íntimamente comprometidos con otro ser humano? ¿Cómo nos conectamos con otras personas? ¿La tecnología nos acerca más o nos aísla detrás de las pantallas? Cuando Olivia Laing se mudó a Nueva York, a los treinta y tantos años, se encontró habitando la soledad diariamente. Cada vez más fascinada por esta "vergonzosa" experiencia, comenzó a explorar la ciudad solitaria a través del arte. Moviéndose fluidamente entre las obras y las vidas de algunos de los artistas más atractivos de la ciudad (Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz), Laing ofrece una investigación eléctrica y deslumbrante sobre lo que significa estar solo, iluminando no solo las causas de la soledad, sino también cómo puede resistirse y redimirse. Humano, provocativo y conmovedor, este libro nos habla sobre los espacios entre las personas y las cosas que las unen, acerca de la sexualidad, la mortalidad y las posibilidades mágicas del arte. La ciudad solitaria es un deslumbrante trabajo de biografía, memorándum y crítica cultural y una celebración de un estado extraño y encantador, alejado del continente más grande de la experiencia humana, pero intrínseco al mismo acto de estar vivo.
Author: Pedro Lemebel Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0143137085 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 273
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A galvanizing look at life on the margins of society by a crowning figure of Latin America's queer counterculture who celebrated “melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds” (Garth Greenwell) in playful, performative, linguistically inventive essays, now available in English for the first time A Penguin Classic “I speak from my difference,” wrote Pedro Lemebel, an openly queer writer and artist living through Chile’s AIDS epidemic and the collapse of the Pinochet dictatorship. In brilliantly innovative essays—known as crónicas—that combine memoir, reportage, fiction, history, and poetry, he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities, the poor, and the powerless. Touching on everything from Che Guevara to Elizabeth Taylor, from the aftermath of authoritarian rule to the daily lives of Chile’s locas—a slur for trans women and effeminate gay men that he boldly reclaims—his writing infuses political urgency with playfulness, realism with absurdism, and resistance with camp, and his AIDS crónicas immortalize a generation of Chileans doubly “disappeared” by casting each loca, as she falls sick, in the starring role of her own private tragedy. This volume brings together the best of his work, introducing readers of English to the subversive genius of a literary activist and queer icon whose acrobatic explorations of the Santiago demimonde reverberate around the world.
Author: Aarti Smith Madan Publisher: Springer ISBN: 331955140X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 298
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This book looks to the writings of prolific statesmen like D.F. Sarmiento, Estanislao Zeballos, and Euclides da Cunha to unearth the literary and political roots of the discipline of geography in nineteenth-century Latin America. Tracing the simultaneous rise of text-writing, map-making, and institution-building, it offers new insight into how nations consolidated their territories. Beginning with the titanic figures of Strabo and Humboldt, it rereads foundational works like Facundo and Os sertões as examples of a recognizably geographical discourse. The book digs into lesser-studied bulletins, correspondence, and essays to tell the story of how three statesmen became literary stars while spearheading Latin America’s first geographic institutes, which sought to delineate the newly independent states. Through a fresh pairing of literary analysis and institutional history, it reveals that words and maps—literature and geography—marched in lockstep to shape national territories, identities, and narratives.
Author: Oxford Handbooks Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197535275 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 673
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"The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges consists of thirty-five chapters, organized into four main categories: Borges's life, his representative work traced across the many decades of his writing, his work in collaboration, and his reception in literature and other disciplines. The volume highlights current debates among Borges scholars as a way to reevaluate how the physical forms and sociopolitical contexts of Borges's writings both shaped and determined specific readerships around the world. Alongside these novel approaches to Borges's fictions and nonfictions, this Handbook is the first of its kind to dedicate space to the reception of Borges's works in the fields of philosophy, the visual arts, film, political science, media theory, mathematics, and law. The collection also goes further to trace Borges's activity in the public sphere, including local and national politics and the functioning of cultural institutions. To date, no other collection devoted to his writings or life addresses these issues in depth, nor do they consider how his affiliations and interests change over the course of his long life. Incorporating these broader perspectives into this Handbook serves to bring out tensions, continuities, and discontinuities in Borges's work, allowing for a much more nuanced understanding of it. Jorge Luis Borges, literary studies, literary history, reception, Argentine literature, Latin American literature"--
Author: Dennis L. Siluk Ed.D. Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 144014012X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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The novella, "Cornfield Laughter," is an interesting parody, and tale of the lives of a number of characters, in particular, two: Shannon O'Day, a retired labour worker in the Midwest (a man direct, with little social trappings), who seems to have led an arduous life of drinking, brawling, to a point, womanizing. And Poggi Ingway, past-middle age, a foundry worker; it is 1966. Both are searching for contentment in life. Shannon thought he had it, until his wife left. Poggi seems to have left it in San Francisco, in an afternoon affair. For that matter, all the characters in the story are seeking in one way or another, that same ingredient, contentment. Yet Poggi anticipates suicide. The story ends as all the characters are drawn together, a glimpse of their lives are given to the reader...to include the promiscuous young Annabelle and her co-worker Maribel, Old Josh the diner cook, Jake and Zam-Zam (a tap dancer). Included in the book are ten short stories; four in English and Spanish: "In the Eyes of the Bull" (Seville, 1998); "Hills like Green Iguanas," (Vietnam, 1971); "A Toucan against One" (from the Amazon); "The Book Story" (a spoof, of sort); and several others.
Author: Gustavo Geirola Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1105567508 Category : Art Languages : es Pages : 452
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The art and practice of directing in Latin America: Central America and United States. Part of a series of interviews with directors from Latin America.
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