Julio Cortázar

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"Esta selección abarca desde los primeros poemas de los años cuarenta hasta Un homenaje y siete nocturnos (1986) e incluye tres peomas dispersos. El conjunto capta a la perfección los rasgos que definen la poética de Mutis: la convivencia de lo lírico y lo narrativo; la deseperanza que resuman sus personajes errantes y sin centro; una cosmovisión de raigambre expresionista, en la que el espacio se tiñe de dicha desesperanza y se torna asfixiante. Acompaña a esta edición el ensayo de Octavio Paz incluido en Puertas al campo"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the Italian: novella for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the Latin: novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term romance.