Violencia y marginalidad en la literatura hispanoamericana

Una rigurosa investigación sobre la agrupación religiosa más importante y poderosa en nuestro país

Precedida por la rica tradición de la novela clásica cercana a ciertos modelos chinos, la novela moderna coreana se impone una renovación a lo largo de la primera mitad del siglo XX. La Reforma Kabo (1894) abrió el país a la modernidad y, aunque ocupada Corea por Japón entre 1910 y 1945, los jóvenes escritores asimilaron las nuevas corrientes literarias del Realismo y del Naturalismo, y fijaron su mirada crítica y de resistencia hacia las duras condiciones de vida de una sociedad sometida. Durante las décadas siguientes, una nueva generación de narradores, entre ellos un número...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

This novel is unique in the time period. Written in Spanish, by a French author, and published in Paris, the title (Deceits of this World) relates to a well-established genre wherein literature and morality were intertwined. Loubayssin writes with irony and wit. It is delicately erotic, a feature that cannot be found in its Spanish counterparts, due to the repressive censorship in Spain at that time. - In Spanish.