Mariposas amarillas y los señores dictadores

Michi Strausfeld, one of the most recognized experts in Latin American literature in the world, analyzes in this splendid book the ideas and prejudices that have passed through the history of the continent for more than five hundred years. It does so from the rereading of top-level authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, lio Cortázar, Elena Poniatowska, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alejo Carpentier, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Carlos Onetti, Augusto Roa Bastos, Domingo F. Sarmiento, Isabel Allende, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Darcy Ribeiro, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz or Guillermo Cabrera Infante. In total, more than two hundred and fifty writers and writers show the wealth and unique cultural baggage of Latin America, always intertwined with its political destiny. Through poems, stories and novels, Strausfeld guides us through the hectic and fascinating history of the continent while she delights us with a series of brief portraits of the main representatives of her literature, which the author knew and treated personally. We will also discover how critical contemporary texts are with the events of the past, with what lucidity the great figures of Latin American letters analyzed the situations in their respective countries and how their works have become the correction of manuals that are often falsified. In the words of Vargas Llosa, "literature tells the story that the history that historians write does not know and cannot tell." Thus, Yellow Butterflies and the Dictators Lords is a literary walk through the true history of the Latin American continent and a sincere invitation, far from the Eurocentric gaze, to reopen the dialogue between Latin America and Europe.