Very Brief Dementias, Cuban Writing of the Nineties

Brevísimas demencias, ensayos, Amir Valle
Do conceptual, thematic and formal differences exist among the young writers of the Nineties and their antecedents? Are they new, post-new, post-modern? How do they insert themselves into the wave of the most recent Latin American writing? These and other questions are elucidated in the profound and vast study that this book proposes, with solid, daring and provocative arguments…

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This Universe of American Solitude

Ese universo de la soledad americana, ensayos, Colombia, Amir Valle
More than a book of essays about the very important work of the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Columbian author Gabriel García Márquez, this book is a conversation, an intellectual essay, from writer to writer, revealing the points of contact and rupture among the key writers who represent the present development of Latin American writing and those who represent the so-called Boom Generation…

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Who Writes in Cienfuegos?

¿Quiénes narran en Cienfuegos?, ensayos, Amir Valle
A reflection that approaches the variety of intentions, the comparison of points of view and the themes found in the writers of the southern province of Cienfuegos, considered by critical research as the first approach in essay form to Cienfuegan narrative throughout its whole history, up to the beginning of the decade of the Nineties.

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