Juan Villoro explora em suas crônicas as vozes de sua geração, seus compatriotas, artistas e intelectuais, anôni- mos, mas também, e principalmente a sua, que combina duas tradições: a europeia e a americana. Este trabalho parte da definição de Villoro da crônica atual como “o ornitorrinco da prosa”, metáfora que remete à essência híbrida desse gên...
Juan Villoro, consecrated in Latin American Literature as a fiction narrator and prominent author in the Children's Literature publishing market, has developed in parallel a remarkable chronological production that has received little critical attention. The reading of these chronicles in conjunction with interviews given by the author allowed us t...
Resumen: En la dimensión imaginaria del espacio de la Ciudad de México pesan mucho las imágenes materiales, en el sentido que Gaston Bachelard otorga al término; es decir, las figuraciones de los cuatro elementos articulan profundamente gran parte de la identidad de la hipermetrópolis. Juan Villoro, uno de los escritores contemporáneos más ligados ...
“Material images” –the way Gaston Bachelard understands them– constitute a very relevant side of the imaginary aspect of Mexico City; that is to say that images of the four elements profoundly articulate this hypermetropolis’ identity. Juan Villoro, one of the contemporary writers who is most strongly linked to the Mexican capital, significantly se...
A number of historical sources chronicle the devastating earthquake that shook the country and destroyed Santiago in 1647, during Chile�s colonial period. More than a century after, Heinrich Kleist published Das Erdbeben in Chili (1811), a fictional relation about the same cataclysm that describes the fatal destiny of two lovers. Surviving the disa...
This study focuses on the symbolic meanings of the axolotl in Juan Villoro's novel 'Materia dispuesta' and the way the author approaches the concept of identity from both the adolescent protagonist and Mexicans in general. This novel will be read in light of Roger Bartra's essay, 'La jaula de la melancolía'. Bartra uses the metaphor of the axolotl ...
