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another. The opening scenes of both novels are those of a woman's mysterious death and the circumstances surrounding the death have repercussions and create a web of unanswered questions which come to constitute a secret interwoven into the present life of the protagonist and revealed at the end of

In: Coming into one's Own

interested in substantially transforming these representations until they no longer resemble the lived experiences of their creator. In La (fa Julia y el escribidor we encounter for the first time a narrator who bears an lmdisguised and unmistakable resemblance to the author. What could have motivated

In: The Story of the Storyteller
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. Zoe would of course indicate the simple fact of life common to all living beings, and hence, life identified with a state of nature where an absence or exclusion from the rights and legal protection afforded by the law-making state would be the norm.7 Bios, meanwhile, indicates the life of a

In: Companion to Empire
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”) in the present, or forfeit the use of history as a source for motivating preparation for the future. To pre-empt the danger that historical knowledge might indeed become an obstacle to actual living in the present and for the future, Nietzsche concedes that a culture should also allow itself

In: Companion to Empire

murder of eight journalists in the mountain village of Uchuraccay, a tragedy that many Pemvians believe was politically motivated. The commission's findings were published in the report "Informe sobre U churaccay. ,,\ Given the nature of the investiga­ tion, which exposed Vargas Llosa to the sierra

In: The Story of the Storyteller
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tuve posibilidad de nacer' (17; note the double epiphora of the verb 'nacer', firmly linking his birth to that event). It should be indicated that the story of the woman committing suicide is of an autobiographical origin (a repetition of events pertaining to the author's life): a relative of

In: Coming into one's Own

"desrecordar" en una totalidad tan anhe1ada por los realistas. Al problematizar el mecanismo de la memoria, Los de abajo revela la resistencia de 10 vivido a ser textualizado y pone en tela de juicio el proceso mismo de representacion. EI planteo de Nora otra vez resulta iitil para mi argumento: Memory is life

In: Todo ojos, todo oídos

narrator's interest in the habladores motivates him to seek out other traditional storytellers. He mentions the Brazilian trovero and the Irish seanchai, describing the latter as "un mensajero de los tiempos del milo y de la magia, anteriores a fa historia" (159-60).18 The narrator finds these

In: The Story of the Storyteller
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everyday speech is melted and reshaped.”20 Music and speech combine to form poetic speech; thus, the poetic space is the ‘attractor’ that initiates the transformation of speech into poetry. For Deleuze and Guattari, a rectilinear or concrete line around something is negatively motivated. Amidst “all

In: Speaking the Earth’s Languages

Mexican physiognomy, in leisure habits and manners of living, the stamps of an inferior people.”41 Such attitudes also prevailed in popular literature, as in George Frederick Ruxton’s adventure and travel writings. His two books, Life in the Far West (serialized in 1848 and published as a book in

In: Threshold Time