Dossier: Juan Emar
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This essay is dedicated to a little-known article published by Juan Emar in 1935, in which he addresses subjects such as excision, self-awareness, and our understanding of the world around us, cons... -
The following text explores a very significant chapter in the life of the Chilean writer Juan Emar. It also discusses the story “Pibesa,” from the collection Diez, published in Chile in 1937... -
Juan Emar was the pseudonym of Chilean writer Álvaro Yáñez Bianchi (1893-1964). The son of Eliodoro Yáñez Ponce de León—a prominent lawyer and politician in the late 19th and early 20th century—and Ro... -
Written between 1940 and 1964 until the author’s death, Umbral was published in full in 1996, accumulating more than 4,000 pages, which are divided into five “pillars.” The present essay...
