Books by Eduardo Gonzalez

Viewing stories and novels from an ethnographic perspective, Eduardo González here explores the relationship between myth, ritual, and death in writings by Borges, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar, and Roa Bastos. He then weaves this analysis into a larger cultural fabric composed of the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce, Benjamin, H. G. Wells, Kafka, Poe, and others.What interests González is the signature of authorial selfhood in narrative and performance, which he finds willfully and temptingly disfigured in the works he examines: horrific and erotic, subservient and tyrannical, charismatic and repellent. Searching out the personal image and plot, González uncovers two fundamental types of narrative: one that strips character of moral choice; and another in which characters' choices deprive them of personal autonomy and hold them in ritual bondage to a group. Thus The Monstered Self becomes a study of the conflict between individual autonomy and the stereotypes of solidarity.Written in a characteristically allusive, elliptical style, and drawing on psychoanalysis, religion, mythology, and comparative literature, The Monstered Self is in itself a remarkable performance, one that will engage readers in anthropology, psychology, and cultural history as well as those specifically interested in Latin American narrative.

Hay gente que vive y gente que es vivida; hay gente que vive y gente que sobrevive; hay gente que vive sin darse cuenta de que vive, sus múltiples ocupaciones los absorben. Vivir no es fácil, vivir es, en pocas palabras, un arte. Este libro es una compilación de las charlas radiofónicas ofrecidas por el P. Eduardo González y que llevan por título: "El arte de vivir". De forma amena, las charlas nos instruyen sobre las actitudes, los sentimientos y las formas de pensar que nos ayudarán a vivir con plenitud dando a Dios y a nuestras familias el lugar que les corresponde. ¿Quiere convertirse en un artista para su vida? Aquí encontrará valiosos consejos.

Offering an analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, this book looks at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005) and Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who left Cuba, and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba.