Cuentos Policiacos

Latin America has a rich literary tradition that is receiving growing amounts of attention. The body of Latin American mystery writing is especially vast and diverse. Because it is part of Latin American popular culture, it also reflects many of the social and cultural concerns of that region. This reference provides an overview of mystery fiction of Latin America. While many of the authors profiled have received critical attention, others have been relatively neglected. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 54 writers, most of whom are from Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba. Every effort has been made to include balanced coverage of the few female mystery writers. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a critical discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.

Poe, “padre de la novela policíaca”, con la creación de Auguste Dupin dio origen al �detective analítico”, y con Los crímenes de la rue Morgue al problema del “recinto cerrado”. Un abominable crimen en una habitación cerrada o una importantísima carta robada pondrán en marcha el aparato policial: pero los policías profesionales no descubren nada, porque el bosque les impide ver el árbol. Dupin, en cambio, parte del árbol, del detalle revelador, y con su fría lógica logra desentrañar la complicada maraña del crimen. En una ocasión hasta sin moverse de casa: para razonar le han bastado los periódicos.

Disfruta de los mejores cuentos pertenecientes a este género.

Más allá de la naturaleza del crimen, del método de investigación del detective y de la solución del caso, el elemento en torno al que el género policial construye todo su atractivo es el enigma. Este ingrediente es precisamente el que vertebra esta antología, que recoge algunos de los mejores relatos de la tradición detectivesca anglosajona. Sus autores constituyen un referente para cualquier aficionado a la narrativa policiaca. Entre ellos están presentes Edgar Allan Poe, el fundador del género, Arthur Conan Doyle, el creador del detective más conocido de todos los tiempos, y Wilkie Collins, autor de La Piedra Lunar, considerada la primera novela policiaca.

Presentation of the author's psychoanalytic beliefs and experiences inchild psychoanalytic therapy.

Antología temática de cuentos españoles y latinoamericanos.

From his first fifteen years in Chile, to his nine years in Mexico City from 1968 to 1977, to the quarter of a century he lived and worked in the Blanes-Barcelona area on the Costa Brava in Spain through his death in 2003, Roberto Bolaño developed into an astonishingly diverse, prolific writer. He is one of the most consequential and widely read of his generation in any language. Increasingly recognized not only in Latin America, but as a major figure in World Literature, Bolaño is an essential writer for the 21st century world. This volume provides a comprehensive mapping of the pivotal contexts, events, stages, and influences shaping Bolaño's writing. As the wide-ranging investigations of this volume's 30 distinguished scholars show, Bolaño's influence and impact will shape literary cultures worldwide for years to come.

A History of Infamy explores the broken nexus between crime, justice, and truth in mid-twentieth-century Mexico. Faced with the violence and impunity that defined politics, policing, and the judicial system in post-revolutionary times, Mexicans sought truth and justice outside state institutions. During this period, criminal news and crime fiction flourished. Civil society’s search for truth and justice led, paradoxically, to the normalization of extrajudicial violence and neglect of the rights of victims. As Pablo Piccato demonstrates, ordinary people in Mexico have made crime and punishment central concerns of the public sphere during the last century, and in doing so have shaped crime and violence in our times.