Contra Unamuno y los demás

A little boy named Dula wants to be the fastest runner. He works skinning fish and, each morning, along with the other child laborers, he tries to win and get to his job first. Sometimes he does it, but not always, depending on whether he had anything to eat the night before. This book provides an excellent way to discuss poverty and its consequences in other countries.

Teoría de la novela de György Lukács es una de las obras capitales sobre teoría literaria, un ensayo filosófico esencial que supuso un punto de inflexión en el estudio de la literatura. Publicada por vez primera en 1916, Teoría de la novela es una obra cumbre de la teoría de la literatura. Mediante un análisis hegeliano de las formas griegas de la poesía épica y la obra trágica, György Lukács da cuenta de la esencia del género de la novela que se conformó siglos más tarde. De este modo, el pensador húngaro establece una relación de la que surgen aquellos atributos y...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

Book offers a close philosophical look at José Enrique Rodó's ARIELISM, an important component of modernism in Latin American history. The images of Ariel and Caliban come to life as the author analyz-es Rodó's book, Ariel, in context of history and literature. In the face of general Latin American failure, the author looks for answers in cultural mechanisms which are inherent to Latin American history.