Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Eastern European (see also Russian & Former Soviet Union)

En un contexto crítico como el literario, donde lo nacional sigue siendo un elemento intrínseco, el autor migrante, que se ubica entre dos tradiciones, representa un elemento incómodo. ¿Es parte del campo literario que lo formó o un integrante novedoso del nuevo espacio cultural que ocupa? El escritor extranjero, término tomado de un ensayo de Clara Obligado, es un desafío a los discursos tradicionales de la crítica, pues fuerza a reformular nociones básicas asociadas a los campos culturales. Los textos que conforman este volumen abordan esta cuestión, así como su relación con...

With La nostalgia ferita [Wounded Nostalgia], Eugenio Borgna develops another term in his personal lexicon of emotion. Here he describes wounded nostalgia, with its constellation of keywords: memory, time, homesickness, childhood.

But there is also nostalgia for death, for a face that, as Rilke wrote, haunts us, sometimes impossible to find, as well as nostalgia for life when we are afflicted by illness. Nostalgia that is open to hope is different from nostalgia that remains frozen in the past.

These are some of the words thematized in this book. There is nostalgia...