"Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist. American Audacity gathers Giraldi's fierce and witty considerations of American writers and themes, including a never-before-published appreciation of James Baldwin and an introductory call to arms for twenty-first-century American literature. With deep seeing and enormous learning, Giraldi considers giants from the past (Herman Melville,...

"LITERARY LANDSCAPES delves deep into the geography, location, and terrain of our best-loved literary works and looks at how setting and environmental attributes influence storytelling, character, and our emotional response as readers. Fully illustrated with hundreds of full-color images throughout. Some stories couldn't happen just anywhere. As is the case with all great literature, the setting, scenery, and landscape are as central to the tale as...

"Este ensayo propone un recorrido por la evolución de la novela en Latinoamérica, desde el descubrimiento del continente hasta nuestros días. Quienes emprendan esta ruta hallarán en ella a las grandes figuras de la novela latinoamericana y sus temas constantes: la naturaleza salvaje, los conflictos sociales, el dictador y la barbarie, la épica del desencanto, el mundo mágico de mito y lenguaje, pero sobre todo su vocación de canibalizar y carnavalizar...