Literatura Universal

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

El Cuento Semanal publicó unas trescientas novelas cortas de más de cien autores españoles contemporáneos en el período de 1907-1912.

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...

Después de la publicación del 'Canto General', el poeta Pablo Neruda tiene que dejar su cargo de senador por el Partido Comunista y es expulsado de Chile al caducar el permiso constitucional que le había impuesto el presidente del senado. Durante dos años viaja por Europa y Asia, es reconocido como poeta y a veces perseguido por las policías políticas. De esa experiencia nace 'Las uvas y el viento'. Pablo Neruda es un poeta consagrado por los lectores y discutido por los críticos. El propio Neruda, al enunciarse como un yo poeta a lo largo de su obra, contribuye a que su poesía sea...