Historical memory has a particular value in analyzing events and characters that give life to stories from the past. Jorge Edwards specifies that the story’s description is nothing more than the literary success of a writer who navigates the vicissitudes of life and history, as he rightly points out. History must be observed carefully and as a “conjecture” that points, in the first place, to an experience of “memory” and that keeps alive, despite time, the unique reality of a country and its people. Like Edwards, we attempt to wander through reminiscences and recollection. Our narrative experience is simple. However, it is an observation and representation of history with a testimonial value in its approach. As the novelist points out, the testimony of history is the most creative thing that the writer has. In the same way, our effort is neither more nor less the rescue, through these short stories and their language, of facts and characters that are part of realities, in which their protagonists make time pass and tell us things from the past.
Edwards is an inspirational source, like other novelists, whetting our appetites in his search for history, facts, and experiences that give us a unique opportunity to delve into the process of history in an endless dialogue that enriches and continues giving life to the past, in an infinite invention of it. It is ultimately the feeling that we have of things that happened and that we can continue learning from them. These memories and lived experiences are stories that perpetuate characters, intellectuals, writers, works, teachings, and places that express an essential part of life through readings, reflections, and significant looks at chronicles that resist oblivion and disappearance. From each of these short stories, we gather a vital part of the search for the truth and the real meaning of life.
作者簡介:
Dr. Miguel �ngel Gonz�z Chand� an SVD priest from Chile, earned his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at KULeuven-Belgium, and his BA in Theology from the Pontificia Universidad Cat�a of Santiago, Chile. He is a full professor at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei. He has taught Latin American Literature and Languages for almost 20 years. He has some 22 publications and was a co-editor of the IAFOR Journal of Education until 2021. He has published the following books Jorge Edwards: el novelista que deambula por la historia (2011); El mundo infantil a trav�de los ojos de Marcela Paz (2014); Roberto Bola�n perspectiva: enigma de una b�squeda (2015). Dr Gonz�z has published a chapter titled The Invention of Morel, a Projection on Dreams and Immortality (2022).
目錄
Foreword Introduction 1. Rancagua 2. Memories of the Past (I) 3. Memories of the Past (II) 4. Victoria 5. Box Hill 6. Leuven 7. Hong Xiuquan (I) 8. Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping Rebellion 1851-1864 (II) 9. Taiping Ideology in Today's Reading 10. José Donoso Life and Work 11. José Donoso: El lugar sin límites 12. Dialogues with Marcela Paz 13. Papelucho Historian 14. Papelucho: Interior monologue, Loneliness and Dialogue 15. Perico Climbs Through Chile 16. Jorge Edwards and the "Conjecture" 17. Jorge Edwards, El sueño de la historia 18. In Memoriam of Michel De Montaigne 19. Georges De Schrijver (1935-2016) 20. Persona Non-Grata 21. "The Little Paris" (小巴黎) 22. The Xin Zhuang Neighborhood 23. María Luisa Bombal 24. Taishan 25. Roberto Bolaño and the Apocalypse 26. Science Fiction: Literary Genre and Dystopia 27. The Savage Detectives 28. La Araucana: A Dystopian Epic 29. Gabriela Mistral 30. Inés del alma mía 31. Isabel Allende, Pain, Death and Hope 32. Portrait of a Woman 33. Graduation Theatre 34. Magic Realism 35. Pedro Páramo: Despotism 36. In Memory of Ambrose Bierce, Old Gringo (1985) 37. Theodor Adorno and Dorothee Sölle 38. Monterroso in Brief 39. Mario Benedetti 40. Alejo Carpentier and The Kingdom of this World 41. Women Writers 42. Rómulo Gallegos: Doña Bárbara 43. Sewell 44. The Smoke Tragedy 45. Theodor Adorno and the "Meaninglessness of Suffering" 46. Jon Sobrino 47. Gustavo Gutiérrez: Third World "Dependence" 48. The face of Jesus in China, Zhong Kui: the Daoist Hero 49. Women and Men in Taiping Society 50. Language and Identity 51. Laura Esquivel: Women in Power 52. Adolfo Bioy Casares: The experience of Love and Pain 53. Utopia and Dystopia 54. Charism that Leads to Tragedy 55. A New World: The War at the Ends of the World 56. Teaching at Fu Jen University 57. Gabriel García Márquez and the Leaf Storm 58. La Malinche: A Woman Between Two Worlds 59. An Adventurous Woman 60. Pablo Neruda 61. Spanish Department in Fu Jen 62. Critical Analysis of Literary Works 63. Isabel Allende: Family Sage 64. El Señor presidente: Carnivalesque Perspective 65. Children's and Youth Literature 66. Aurora del Valle: A Free Woman 67. Carlos Fuentes: La campaña 68. Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude 69. “El Axolotl” 70. The Crying of Latin American 71. Michael Houllebecq: The Dystopian Submission 72. Herbert George Wells: The Time Machine 73. Roberto Bolaño: Distant Star 74. Power and Truth in the Patristic Age 75. Roberto Bolaño and the Window Enigma 76. Space and House in Isabel Allende 77. The Personal History of the Literary Genre "El Boom" 78. Age of Enlightenment 79. Octavio Paz: The Labyrinth of Solitude 80. Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett 81. George Orwell: Animal Farm 82. Magic in the Kitchen, Sensuality and Feminine Space 83. Horacio Quiroga 84. Dostoevsky's House (2008) 85. Jorge Luis Borges: "El Sur" 86. Myth and Magic 87. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale 88. Simón Bolivar: The General in His Labyrinth 89. A Tribute to Diego Rivera
Foreword Introduction 1. Rancagua 2. Memories of the Past (I) 3. Memories of the Past (II) 4. Victoria 5. Box Hill 6. Leuven 7. Hong Xiuquan (I) 8. Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping Rebellion 1851-1864 (II) 9. Taiping Ideology in Today's Reading 10. José Donoso Life and Work 11. José Donoso: El lugar sin límites 12. Dialogues with Marcela Paz 13. Papelucho Historian 14. Papelucho: Interior monologue, Loneliness and Dialogue 15. Perico Climbs Through Chile 16. Jorge Edwards and the "Conjecture" 17. Jo...