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This work analyzes the images of the Patagonian space putted on display in the novel La costurera y el viento (1994) by César Aira, as well as the discursive procedures with which these images are constructed. The book exhibits the Patagonia as a textual and textualized corpus complex, through which the literary construction of the region, as a liminal zone profuse in fictions of identities, is problematized. From an ostensible narrative performativity, the novel combines the invention of the space and the frequent reference to a historical and literary cartography updated in a dispersion of intertextual affiliations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with the notion of accident from a wide point of view integrating philological, philosophical and historical data. The meaning of accident is analyzed according to the image of the world in the post-industrialized societies, from a set of theorical reflexions developed by Octavio Paz during the 60's; finally, there is a brief discussion about the possible connections between the notion of accident and the hispanic literacy production in the 20th century, specifically in the field of narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay aims to revisit the production of a rather neglected Chilean writer, Carlos Sepúlveda Leyton (1895-1941). Through the analyses of his novels Hijuna and Comrade, it argues that Sepúlveda Leyton is not just a transitional figure in Chile's social novel tradition; on the contrary, his work constitutes a radicalization of the social novel and as such it should deserved a more notorious position in Chile's literary historiography. Finally, from the study of his work it emerges the need for a reconsideration of the traditional divisions between realism and avant-garde. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the argument that locates the beginning of critical and literary discoursiveness in Chile in the consolidation of Latin American independence processes in the first half of the 19th century in the writings of Andrés Bello and José Victorino Lastarria. The study proposes that Bello's criticism, as regards the relationship between the attachment to rhetoricity and his notion of historical knowledge, provides criticism with a project related to its emancipatory tenets as shown in the postulatory function of Bello's criticism. On the other hand, considering his foundational zeal and his interpretative conception of history, Lastarria contributes to an emphatic and stable inscription of the interpretative function for the configuration of future critical and literary discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta una crítica literaria de la novela "Amuleto" del autor chileno Roberto Bolaño y de su literatura en general, refiriendo a otras obras como "Los detectives salvajes" y "Nocturno de Chile." El tema de memoria es un punto de enfoque en el análisis en relación a los movimientos juveniles latinoamericanos de los años 60 y 70 y las dictaduras que los persiguieron.

El artículo presenta una crítica literaria de la novela "Estrella distante" del autor chileno Roberto Bolaño. Analiza el libro en el contexto de su escenario de Chile durante la dictadura militar de Augusto Pinochet, la narración excéntrica, y la doble identidad del protagonista. Además, el artículo examina los lugares en la novela como enclaves socio-históricos, como la ciudad de Concepción, Chile.

Cadáver tuerto (2005) anticipates the variations of the novel genre in Chilean literatura, priviledging and contemplating the writing process. Labarca parodies, in this novel, the crossings among fiction and reality, between life and autobiography, between television, radio and written newsprint discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that, at present, there has been a loss of the "map" of identity references of Latin American literatura, which has been blurred national borders, resulting in the breakdown of a model of a writer and a restructuring of his role in society. For this reason, the author proposes that the study of the "floating territories" of this new literary cartography is not easy to place on the "flowchart" of the classical tradition of Latin American literature, which uis accustomed to divide by periods and countries, regardless of the "trans-territoriality" that current narrative presents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo ofrece la reflexión del autor sobre los estudios de teoría y crítica literaria en América Latina y en respuesta al artículo "Estudios latinoamericanos y nueva dependencia cultural (apuntes para una discusión)" de Nelson Osorio, publicado en el número 66 (2007) de la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. El autor considera la independencia intelectual en los estudios latinoamericanos de literatura y la construcción del diálogo intercultural.

The figure of the soldier writer in literature stories constitutes a foundational paradigm in the construction of the idea about the Latin-American intellectual. Such paradigm is the object of a dynamic that we named the circle of metamorphosis, which evidences the process that begins with the soldier writer in battle —represented by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada— and ends with the hero writer as a constructor of public opinion and narrator of national history. All these images take part in the construction of national identity and in the ideal of the Latin-American intellectual linked to the battle and performance characteristics of Emancipation. Thus, this article aims to open the door for future discussions around the rol of literature stories inside the social and historical development of the continent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo enfoca en los sistemas de significación de la literatura policial y del psicoanálisis. Considera las tradiciones griegas de la significación y, utilizando la perspectiva del filósofo italiano Giorgio Agamben, explora los sistemas de significación de la literatura policial y el psicoanálisis de Freud y Lacán.