Victoria in My Memories

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作者:Miguel Ángel González Chandía(耿哲磊) 著

出版年:2024

出版社:輔仁大學出版社

出版地:臺北市

格式:PDF,JPG

頁數:606

ISBN:9789860729603

EISBN:9789860729610 PDF

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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.

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).

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. Rancagua
  • 2. Memories of the Past (I)
  • 3. Memories of the Past (II)
  • 4. Victoria
  • 5. Box Hill
  • 6. Leuven
  • 7. Hong Xiuquan (I)
  • 8. Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping Rebellion 1851-1864 (II)
  • 9. Taiping Ideology in Today's Reading
  • 10. José Donoso Life and Work
  • 11. José Donoso: El lugar sin límites
  • 12. Dialogues with Marcela Paz
  • 13. Papelucho Historian
  • 14. Papelucho: Interior monologue, Loneliness and Dialogue
  • 15. Perico Climbs Through Chile
  • 16. Jorge Edwards and the "Conjecture"
  • 17. Jorge Edwards, El sueño de la historia
  • 18. In Memoriam of Michel De Montaigne
  • 19. Georges De Schrijver (1935-2016)
  • 20. Persona Non-Grata
  • 21. "The Little Paris" (小巴黎)
  • 22. The Xin Zhuang Neighborhood
  • 23. María Luisa Bombal
  • 24. Taishan
  • 25. Roberto Bolaño and the Apocalypse
  • 26. Science Fiction: Literary Genre and Dystopia
  • 27. The Savage Detectives
  • 28. La Araucana: A Dystopian Epic
  • 29. Gabriela Mistral
  • 30. Inés del alma mía
  • 31. Isabel Allende, Pain, Death and Hope
  • 32. Portrait of a Woman
  • 33. Graduation Theatre
  • 34. Magic Realism
  • 35. Pedro Páramo: Despotism
  • 36. In Memory of Ambrose Bierce, Old Gringo (1985)
  • 37. Theodor Adorno and Dorothee Sölle
  • 38. Monterroso in Brief
  • 39. Mario Benedetti
  • 40. Alejo Carpentier and The Kingdom of this World
  • 41. Women Writers
  • 42. Rómulo Gallegos: Doña Bárbara
  • 43. Sewell
  • 44. The Smoke Tragedy
  • 45. Theodor Adorno and the "Meaninglessness of Suffering"
  • 46. Jon Sobrino
  • 47. Gustavo Gutiérrez: Third World "Dependence"
  • 48. The face of Jesus in China, Zhong Kui: the Daoist Hero
  • 49. Women and Men in Taiping Society
  • 50. Language and Identity
  • 51. Laura Esquivel: Women in Power
  • 52. Adolfo Bioy Casares: The experience of Love and Pain
  • 53. Utopia and Dystopia
  • 54. Charism that Leads to Tragedy
  • 55. A New World: The War at the Ends of the World
  • 56. Teaching at Fu Jen University
  • 57. Gabriel García Márquez and the Leaf Storm
  • 58. La Malinche: A Woman Between Two Worlds
  • 59. An Adventurous Woman
  • 60. Pablo Neruda
  • 61. Spanish Department in Fu Jen
  • 62. Critical Analysis of Literary Works
  • 63. Isabel Allende: Family Sage
  • 64. El Señor presidente: Carnivalesque Perspective
  • 65. Children's and Youth Literature
  • 66. Aurora del Valle: A Free Woman
  • 67. Carlos Fuentes: La campaña
  • 68. Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • 69. “El Axolotl”
  • 70. The Crying of Latin American
  • 71. Michael Houllebecq: The Dystopian Submission
  • 72. Herbert George Wells: The Time Machine
  • 73. Roberto Bolaño: Distant Star
  • 74. Power and Truth in the Patristic Age
  • 75. Roberto Bolaño and the Window Enigma
  • 76. Space and House in Isabel Allende
  • 77. The Personal History of the Literary Genre "El Boom"
  • 78. Age of Enlightenment
  • 79. Octavio Paz: The Labyrinth of Solitude
  • 80. Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
  • 81. George Orwell: Animal Farm
  • 82. Magic in the Kitchen, Sensuality and Feminine Space
  • 83. Horacio Quiroga
  • 84. Dostoevsky's House (2008)
  • 85. Jorge Luis Borges: "El Sur"
  • 86. Myth and Magic
  • 87. Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
  • 88. Simón Bolivar: The General in His Labyrinth
  • 89. A Tribute to Diego Rivera