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Victoria in My Memories

內容簡介

內容簡介 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Dr. Miguel Ángel González Chandía, an SVD priest from Chile, earned his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at KULeuven-Belgium, and his BA in Theology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica 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 través de los ojos de Marcela Paz (2014); Roberto Bolaño en perspectiva: enigma de una búsqueda (2015). Dr González has published a chapter titled The Invention of Morel, a Projection on Dreams and Immortality (2022).

產品目錄

產品目錄 ForewordIntroduction1. Rancagua2. Memories of the Past (I)3. Memories of the Past (II)4. Victoria5. Box Hill6. Leuven7. Hong Xiuquan (I)8. Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping Rebellion 1851-1864 (II)9. Taiping Ideology in Today's Reading10. José Donoso Life and Work11. José Donoso: El lugar sin límites12. Dialogues with Marcela Paz13. Papelucho Historian14. Papelucho: Interior monologue, Loneliness and Dialogue15. Perico Climbs Through Chile16. Jorge Edwards and the "Conjecture"17. Jorge Edwards, El sueño de la historia18. In Memoriam of Michel De Montaigne19. Georges De Schrijver (1935-2016)20. Persona Non-Grata21. "The Little Paris" (小巴黎)22. The Xin Zhuang Neighborhood23. María Luisa Bombal24. Taishan25. Roberto Bolaño and the Apocalypse26. Science Fiction: Literary Genre and Dystopia27. The Savage Detectives28. La Araucana: A Dystopian Epic29. Gabriela Mistral30. Inés del alma mía31. Isabel Allende, Pain, Death and Hope32. Portrait of a Woman33. Graduation Theatre34. Magic Realism35. Pedro Páramo: Despotism36. In Memory of Ambrose Bierce, Old Gringo (1985)37. Theodor Adorno and Dorothee Sölle38. Monterroso in Brief39. Mario Benedetti40. Alejo Carpentier and The Kingdom of this World41. Women Writers42. Rómulo Gallegos: Doña Bárbara43. Sewell44. The Smoke Tragedy45. Theodor Adorno and the "Meaninglessness of Suffering"46. Jon Sobrino47. Gustavo Gutiérrez: Third World "Dependence"48. The face of Jesus in China, Zhong Kui: the Daoist Hero49. Women and Men in Taiping Society50. Language and Identity51. Laura Esquivel: Women in Power52. Adolfo Bioy Casares: The experience of Love and Pain53. Utopia and Dystopia54. Charism that Leads to Tragedy55. A New World: The War at the Ends of the World56. Teaching at Fu Jen University57. Gabriel García Márquez and the Leaf Storm58. La Malinche: A Woman Between Two Worlds59. An Adventurous Woman60. Pablo Neruda61. Spanish Department in Fu Jen62. Critical Analysis of Literary Works63. Isabel Allende: Family Sage64. El Señor presidente: Carnivalesque Perspective65. Children's and Youth Literature66. Aurora del Valle: A Free Woman67. Carlos Fuentes: La campaña68. Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude69. “El Axolotl”70. The Crying of Latin American71. Michael Houllebecq: The Dystopian Submission72. Herbert George Wells: The Time Machine73. Roberto Bolaño: Distant Star74. Power and Truth in the Patristic Age75. Roberto Bolaño and the Window Enigma76. Space and House in Isabel Allende77. The Personal History of the Literary Genre "El Boom"78. Age of Enlightenment79. Octavio Paz: The Labyrinth of Solitude80. Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett81. George Orwell: Animal Farm82. Magic in the Kitchen, Sensuality and Feminine Space83. Horacio Quiroga84. Dostoevsky's House (2008)85. Jorge Luis Borges: "El Sur"86. Myth and Magic87. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale88. Simón Bolivar: The General in His Labyrinth89. A Tribute to Diego Rivera

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導讀 : I have known Miguel Ángel González Chandía for the last decade. We are colleagues in Taiwan and met at various international conferences until I moved to Taipei, where we became friends. I want to begin this foreword with a quote from the great Jorge Edwards that appears in this book, which states, "The story's description is nothing more than the literary success of a writer who navigates the vicissitudes of life and history, culture and geography, in this order of importance".
This book recalls memories from González Chandía, born in Rancagua, Chile, where he began his "youth readings thanks to a race of librarians mostly extinct and a special teacher". Then
Miguel Ángel reveals the title's origin and his love for literature: Victoria. Then he moved to Melbourne and, later, his studies at the University of Leuven. He introduces Hong Xiuquan, the Taiping Rebellion, and its historical understanding today. Other historical moments and places in China and Taiwan are remembered, but, above all, he places particular emphasis on the Taiping society - a society and a moment that changed Chinese culture forever.

In these pages, Miguel Ángel presents capital authors of Hispanic literature without making any distinction by nationality, like the amalgam they are. Throughout the book, he analyses and expresses a diversity of thought that comes to mind when reading several of the capital works of these writers and the unequivocal references that can be found in the texts to historical processes that have changed the shape of the world. It is worth mentioning here merely a few, such as José Donoso; his beloved Jorge Edwards and Marcela Paz, to whom, perhaps, he dedicates more attention than others; María Luisa Bombal; Gabriel García Márquez; Roberto Bolaño and his apocalyptic message; the dystopian epic of Alonso de Ercilla; Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, or Gabriela Mistral for poetry lovers; Juan Rulfo; Miguel Ángel Asturias; Mario Benedetti; Alejo Carpentier; Carlos Fuentes; Pablo Neruda; Laura Esquivel; Adolfo Bioy Casares; Mario Vargas Llosa; Isabel Allende; Jorge Luis Borges; the almost always brief Monterroso; Carlos Fuentes; Julio Cortázar; Eduardo Galeano; Alejo Carpentier; Octavio Paz; Horacio Quiroga; and many others that we must not mention, so that one can immerse itself in these pages without any prerogative. The fantastic culture of González Chandía seems to be relegated to the background by its honest humility, an essential characteristic of every wise person.

Meanwhile, he is not content with great Hispanic authors, and, as a good lover of universal literature, he reviews his impressions and learnings from many other great masters of letters, such as George De Schrijver, inspirer of the Liberation Theology, the great novelist's Ray Bradbury, the genius of Aldous Leonard Huxley and Evgueni Zamyatin, masters of a genre that is my weakness; the philosopher Theodor Adorno, whose repeated appearance gives us clues about the philosophical school tendencies of González Chandía. He continues untangling Leibniz, Voltaire; Heidegger, the genius of Herbert George Wells; Margaret Atwood; Mikhail Baijtín and his cultural interpretations; Michael Houllebecq and his warning concerning the decline of the society of our century; Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett and her feminist utopia, precursor of great writers like Ursula K. Le Guin; and George Orwell, with whom he closes some fascinating reflections about the society in which we live now, and the warnings from the artists mentioned above. Between one author and the other, he intersperses meditations related to their works and those historical moments. That is because they are part of the historicity of the world in general, Chile, and our author more specifically. It is, therefore, an overview of the history of Chile about the world. With the assistance of those creators, Miguel Ángel reveals his soul before the reader exposes himself in the brave gesture of a person who is no longer afraid of anything. His chapter on youth and children's literature stands out to me. He vindicates the role of researchers and authors who began to gain relevance and acquire quality status because of their works during the mid-70s in Spain and 80s in Latin America, stripping us, Deo Gratias, of the atrocities committed against the great authors of genres such as Mystery or Science Fiction, who were reduced to the point of meaninglessness in editions to young readers.

Jorge Edwards and his El sueño de la historia ( The Dream of History ) begin the series of alternated chapters about his first experience teaching literature and textual analysis at Fu Jen University. The place where González Chandía has spent most of his working life and to which he has so much affection. If we highlight one of the conclusions about life that we can extract from this book, it would be the perception of loneliness of the authors mentioned in their self-awareness as a poet or fiction writer. Miguel Ángel reflects on the reality surrounding those writers through their texts. A feeling that González Chandía offers us in a translucent manner. As he tells us, the pain caused by that loneliness is the unifying point of the conception of artistic creation of almost all the authors who appear on these pages.

Fernando Darío González Grueso

最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : Historical memory has a particular value in analyzing events and characters that give life to stories from the past. Jorge Edwards specifies that the

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