The 21st Century Macondo
This year, South American literary cliques celebrate that half a century ago, Colombian Gabriel García Márquez published the book that made our culture popular in the rest of the world:…
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Me fui de Comala porque mi padre vivía en Houston
El siguiente texto es fragmento de una conferencia dictada por Monsiváis en Rice University el 4 de abril del 2007. La visita fue organizada por los departamentos de lenguas de…
El tañido de una flauta
Cuando el autor habla de El tañido de una flauta, la primera novela, señala las bases de su poética: “al escribirla establecí de modo tácito un compromiso con la escritura.…
Hisptinos: When The Blind Visionaries Strike Again
At first glance, to call someone a “blind visionary” sounds like a gratuitous oxymoron. But this is so only until we look further into it. For someone to have good…
The Truth about Spain: American Hispanism, the Spanish Civil War, and the Crisis of Academic Legitimacy
Almost from the moment of its outbreak in July 1936, the Spanish Civil War sparked intense public controversy in many different countries, not least in the United States. For some,…
George Steiner: La tristeza del pensamiento
Publicada en edición bilingüe, inglés y francés, Dix raisons (posibles) à la tristesse de la pensée es una obra de síntesis y reflexión y casi un testamento intelectual. El ensayo…
Latin America and the World at the Pre-9/11 Juncture
América Latina y el mundo en la coyuntura pre 9/11
In the memory of Eduard Delgado, the Director of Interarts, who lost his battle against cancer in 2002. In 1979, when I was the only yanqui working at the recently…
The New Conquest
As an American, Mexico is becoming familiar—not because of the migration of Mexican people to the United States, or the influence they have had on our culture, as we are…
Cine globalizado
La utopía capitalista occidental ha afirmado que el triunfo es suyo y que gobernará el mundo para rato, si no es que para siempre y que la cultura occidental es…
Democracia e imperio
Desde el surgimiento como nación independiente y, más específicamente, desde su arribo a partir de la Segunda Guerra mundial como la mayor potencia, existe una escisión interna que atraviesa a…
The Twilight of the Intellectual Poet
El ocaso de los poetas intelectuales
Apparently, what happened to us was the same thing that happens to those kids who really shine during adolescence, in high school. They’re so active and brilliant at that age…
Polemical Paz
Octavio Paz was no stranger to controversy. The target of often harsh attacks by his enemies—in particular for his political view— Paz did not shy away from engaging in robust…
