Tabla de Contenidos: “…Trauma and abuse: the development of a cultural complex in the history of Latin AmericaPostmodern consciousness in the novels of Haruki Murakami: an emerging cultural complex; Corruption: symptom of a cultural complex in Brazil?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Eliot’s “Little Lidding” -- Harmonious Balance as the Ultimate Reality in Artistic and Philosophical Interpretation of the Taiji Diagram -- Time After Time: The Temporality of Human Existence in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury -- Toward Destiny -- Destiny in the Literature of Walker Percy, Leo Tolstoy and Eudora Welty -- The Interior Quest: Memoir, Lens of Personal Destiny -- Collective Intentions and the Phenomenology of Time – The Theory of Non-Domination in Communication -- Interpretation Of Destiny -- Human Destiny at the Edge of Existential Categories of Life: Musil and Kundera in Dialogue -- Aspiring Beyond:French Romanticism, Nietzsche And Saint-John Perse -- Words Turn into Stone Haruki Murakami’s After The Quake -- On the Modern Opposition of Fate, Destiny, Life, Doom and Luck in the Light of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady -- Gail Godwin: Negotiating With Destiny in The Odd Woman and “Dream Children” -- The Soul and its Destiny: Readings and Dialogues on Science, Philosophy and Religion - A Meeting with Vito Mancuso and Orlando Franceschelli…”

“…The modern fiction covered is as varied as the acclaimed North American television series The Wire, contemporary Arab fiction, the Japanese novels of Haruki Murakami and the works of New Zealand's foremost Maori writer, Witi Ihimaera. …”

“…Así nos lo recuerdan las palabras del escritor japonés Haruki Murakami: "Y una vez que la tormenta termine, no recordarás cómo lo lograste, cómo sobreviviste. …”