http://www.ronaldflores.com Literatura Guatemalteca Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:00:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "El huésped" (2006) es la primera novela de Guadalupe Nettel (México, 1973). Se trata de una narración fluída, bien estructurada, sobre la ceguera, su irrupción, la subcultura que engendra. El inicio, que trata sobre la manera en que la protagonista y su familia encaran la muerte temprana de un hermano ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/06/25/lecturas-varias-el-huesped-wasabi-mf-y-otros-cuentos-fuga-permanente-la-apariencia-de-las-cosas-bonsai-historia-de-un-hombre/ Limón Blues (2002) de Anacristina Rossi (Costa Rica, 1952) es una novela memorable, ambiciosa, que mezcla ecuánimemente los amores, las pasiones y la lucha política de la población afrodescendiente centroamericana y caribeña, una parte de la población fundamental pero usualmente silenciada en las historias nacionales de la región. Limón Blues es ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/06/24/limon-blues-de-anacristina-rossi/ The theorists that I consider best suit the contradictory elaboration of the "contemporary" as opposed to the ancient, are Tacitus, Schiller and Cinthio. I am well aware that I do not cite them in their respective chronological order, but in doing so I pursue a different type of arrangement, a ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/06/16/a-reflective-perspective-on-the-fleeting-present/ Even though Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (1962), often viewed as the masterpiece of emerging postmodern fiction (according to John Burt Foster Jr.), can be considered an innovative and disruptive discourse, it follows a tradition established by Cervantes' Don Quixote, Modernity's seminal fiction. These two novels, standing in the opposite spectrum ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/05/13/nabokovs-pale-fire-don-quixote/ Thomas Pynchon’s 1966 novel “The Crying of Lot 49” can be read as a reflection of the failures of the communication process. A message muted, differed, changed or lost between its sender and its receiver, or by the inability of the receiver to decode it. Various symbols of this failure can ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/05/10/about-the-crying-of-lot-49-pynchon-and-borges/ "Reading Myself and Others" compiles interviews, essays and articles written by Philip Roth over a quarter of a century. It was first published in 1975, when Roth had published his first 8 books of narrative, among them "Portnoy's Complaint" (1969) and "My Life as a Man" (1974). "Reading Myself and Others" ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/05/08/reading-myself-and-others-by-philip-roth/ "I am Charlotte Simmons" (2004) is Tom Wolfe's ambitious campus novel. It follows Charlotte Simmons in her first year at the fictitious Dupont University. It's about her transformation from an average nerd freshman to a cool and beautiful sophomore. Romantic trouble, coming of age and all, included. "I am Charlotte Simmons" ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/05/07/i-am-charlotte-simmons-by-tom-wolfe/ "Historia del llanto" (2007) es la última pieza narrativa de Alan Pauls (Buenos Aires, 1959). Aunque ha sido calificada como novela, "Historia del llanto" lleva el curioso subtítulo de "testimonio", acaso porque Pauls se adentra en los recuerdos de una infancia sudamericana en plena guerra fría. La narración parece fundamentada en ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/05/06/historia-del-llanto-de-alan-pauls/ John Barth in his 1967 essay “The Literature of Exhaustion”, was arguably the first prominent U.S. American writer to acknowledge in his own creative process a resonance stemming from a South American, in this case Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1980). Although that year Latin American literary tradition received world wide attention (Guatemalan ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/05/05/barth-borges/ Aproximación a las generaciones literarias en América Latina a fines del XX (versión corta del ensayo publicado originalmente en “La sonrisa irónica”, 2005). El manifiesto vanguardista presentado como prólogo a la antología de cuentos “Se habla español: voces latinas en USA”, publicada por Alfaguara en el 2000, motiva esta reflexión tardía ... http://www.ronaldflores.com/2008/05/03/mcboom/