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This paper sets out an approaching to "El crisol" and "El ángel caído", two short stories by Germán Espinosa. The critical reading is associated to the notion that the act of reading/writing is a dialogic act, in which writers exploit all the readings that are around them. The focus is on the way the reader/writer Espinosa presents a reading/writing relationship with Jorge Luis Borges and William Faulkner in those short stories. The paper provides an innovative reading of one of the most prolific Colombian authors from the second half of the 20th Century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the novel Amarás a Dios sobre todas las cosas (2013), by Mexicain writer Alejandro Hernández, and proposes to go beyond the press treatment of the issue by offering an analysis of the fiction which focuses on the migratory journey. The testimonial value of the story reflects the full drama of that journey, allowing it to act as a tool of denunciation. Moreover, the story is presented as a chronicle, which allows the work of fiction to insert itself in a context that reveals the violence that Central American migrants suffer during their hellish crossing of Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the most interesting passages in El Libro de Alexandre, a text that updates for the Middle Ages the life of Alexander the Great and adds certain fantastic aspects, is, with no doubt, the finding of Poro's Palace, located in India. In this episode, the Macedonian king finds a tree made of gold that is an automat, it means a kind of robot that moves itself by certain physical forces. In this paper, the author tries to get deeper in this passage and reveals its intra and extratextual functions, as well as its intertextual and extratextual relationship, concerning other literary works and historical aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the lexical-semantic changes suffered by apechugar [undertake], atarantado [astounded, lightheaded, thoughless], baraja [quarrel], blanca [money], desayunarse [to get astonishing news], pelar [to get someone's money], pluma [money] in several Spanish-speaking American countries (e.g. Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay and others) with emphasis on Venezuela. These words were used by Juan de Castellanos in his Elegías de Varones Ilustres de Indias (1589). The study verifies the evolution of these voices through lexicographical important books. The investigation concludes that, after 500 years, (i) the examined lexis stay in America, (ii) new entities have been produced from these vocabularies, (iii) the terms have changed their meaning, what giving them character own to the American Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the destabilization of the subject and writing in some poems by León de Greiff. It separates from analysis focused on its Latin-American modernist aesthetic and proposes other items to support its advanced aesthetic, such as the problem of subjectivity or the critique of modernity based on the relationship between autonomy and sovereignty of the art. It develops a perspective that justifies the participation of this poetry in an aesthetic far from modernism and focused on contemporary concerns about fragmented subject and its disintegration in writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pizarnik is a writer whose work is highly interesting from the editorial point of view, for two particular situations. First, the published work is identified as "complete" when there is no complete edition of this author, because it bears the burden of censorship. Second, this gap causes the necessity of going to Princeton, where is the "original" work of Pizarnik in a more complete version. This paper tries to explore these points, starting from the experience of editing the unpublished work Otoño o los de arriba. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]