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| “Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel is one of the greatest books ever written about American literature. It makes some provocative assertions, true, but more than anything, it's this high-velocity voice-driven exploration of what makes American literature itself. And Fiedler is pound for pound just one of the most incredible stylists we've ever seen.” —Brandon Taylor Leslie A. FiedlerLeslie A. Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel is a study of American fiction from its beginnings up through the 1960s. In this tour de force from the great mid-twentieth-century era of literary criticism, Fiedler argues that American literature is gothic at heart, marked by a terror of sexuality and an obsession with violence, escape, and death. The American writer, he says, confronts a world that is "without a significant history or a substantial past; a world which had left behind the terror of Europe not for the innocence it dreamed of, but for new and special guilts associated with the rape of nature and the exploitation of dark-skinned people." Fiedler's own book, as brilliantly written as it is provocatively conceived, is itself a contribution to American literature. His puckish suggestion is that we read it "not as a conventional scholarly book—or an eccentric one—but a kind of gothic novel (complete with touches of black humor) whose subject is American experience as recorded in our classic fiction." “I know few works of criticism that are so likely to involve the reader whose interest in literature is not of a professional kind.... It amounts to a general cultural history of the nation.” —Lionel Trilling For three days only, Love and Death in the American Novel is available at 25% off along with a selection of mid-twentieth-century American novels: |
| El encuentro fortuito con un árbol superviviente de la bomba atómica inspiró a Efrén Giraldo, profesor de literatura, nieto de campesinos y jardinero aficionado, los textos de este libro, que quieren contribuir al inventario de ficciones e iconografías de las plantas a través de relatos sobre trasplantes, extinciones e invasiones. En estas páginas hace acopio de especies reales e imaginarias, provenientes de intereses, preferencias e historias de vida propias y ajenas, pero también de representaciones literarias, científicas y artísticas que nos revelan la asombrosa inteligencia de la flora. Un ensayo de exuberante erudición que ahonda en el extraordinario poder de resiliencia del mundo vegetal y su papel en nuestras vidas. | | | Puedes leer las primeras páginas aquí. | | | Efrén Giraldo (Medellín, 1975), escritor, crítico, investigador y editor, es doctor en Literatura por la Universidad de Antioquia y docente en la Universidad EAFIT. Ha publicado ocho ensayos, de los que cabe destacar Entre delirio y geometría (2013)
—ganador del Premio Nacional de Cultura en Literatura de la Universidad de Antioquia en la modalidad de
ensayo—, La poética del esbozo (2014), La línea sin reposo (2016), Cartas a una joven ensayista (2017) y Teorías de lo ilegible (2023). Por Sumario de plantas oficiosas (Acantilado, 2026), ha recibido el Premio de No Ficción Latinoamérica Independiente (2022) y el Premio Nacional de Ensayo de Colombia (2024). | | | Captura de instantes
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