Bøger af Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

A la extensa y variada bibliografía que ya se acumula sobre la vida y obra de Severo Sarduy, este libro contribuye con una dimensión íntima y conmovedora. Se reúne aquí una parte considerable de la correspondencia enviada por Sarduy a Roberto González Echevarría, quien fuera uno de sus amigos entrañables durante más de veinte años, desde que se conocieran en 1969 y hasta el final de sus días. Los textos reproducidos, cuyos originales se encuentran hoy en la biblioteca de la Universidad de Princeton, son un testimonio de amistad y confianza entre dos imprescindibles intelectuales que compartieron, además de su raíz cubana, varios intereses comunes sobre temas como el barroco, el pensamiento francés, la experiencia del exilio, la tradición cultural de la Isla o la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. Como resultado de esa comunión, el volumen también se enriquece con una entrevista que trabajaron ambos amigos y con algunas piezas literarias escritas por Sarduy y enviadas entonces a González Echevarría para su valoración exclusiva. A través de un diálogo familiar, muy desenfadado y a la vez perspicaz, estas páginas rescatadas no solo nos revelan detalles valiosos sobre los proyectos creativos de Sarduy, o sobre sus viajes, anhelos, ideas y vínculos con otros intelectuales, sino que además nos hacen partícipes de la estrecha complicidad que labraron el autor de La simulación y uno de sus más sagaces críticos.

The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spains Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto Gonzlez Echevarra explores the works of Cervantes, showing how his representations of love were inspired by examples of human deviance and desire culled from legal discourse. Gonzlez Echevarra describes Spains new legal policies, legislation, and institutions and explains how, at the same time, its literature became filled with love stories derived from classical and medieval sources. Examining the ways that these legal and literary developments interacted in Cervantess work, he sheds new light on Don Quixote and other writings.

This book offers a theory about the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative, and about the emergence of the modern novel. The book contains readings of major works in the tradition such as Garcilaso el Inca's Comentarios reales, Sarmiento's Facundo, Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos and Garcia Marquez's Cien anos de Soledad.

In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto González Echevarría peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls “watching them at a distance, though thinking, fearing, that once I grew older I would have to participate in the whole event.” Now an acclaimed scholar of Latin American literature, González Echevarría returns to the rituals that defined his young life in Cuban Fiestas. Drawing from art, literature, film, and even the national sport of baseball, he vividly reveals the fiesta as a dynamic force of both destruction and renewal in the life of a people.Roberto González Echevarría masterfully exposes the distinctive elements of the fiesta cubana that give depth and coherence to more than two centuries of Cuban cultural life. Reaching back to nineteenth-century traditions of Cuban art and literature, and augmenting them, in the twentieth, with the arts of narrative, the esthetic performances of sport and entertainment in nightclubs, on the baseball diamond, and in movie theaters, Cuban Fiestas renders the lilting strains of the fiesta and drum beats of the passage of time as keys to understanding the dynamic quality of Cuban culture. González Echevarría’s explorations are also illuminated by autobiographical vignettes that unveil the ever-shifting impact of the fiesta on the author’s own story of exile and return.

This book covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two.

A timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.