Literatura Universal

"Cocodrilo y Jirafa son una pareja: una pareja de enamorados. Jirafa es muy alta y Cocodrilo, muy bajo, por eso viven en una casa hecha a su medida. En ella, casi no se dan cuenta de lo diferentes que son. Pero, un día que fueron a dar la vuelta ... -- Page 4 of cover.

Como suele ocurrir con algunas de las novelas fundamentales del continente americano, "El mulato", un verdadero clásico de la narrativa brasileña, rompe los moldes europeos en los que se basa y consigue un tejido extraño, nuevo, engañosamente ingenuo, donde el naturalismo se libera de toda ortodoxia para dejarse conteminar por el dinamismo y la sorpresa del folletín romántico, la novela de aventuras o de misterio. Una combinación feliz y excéntrica que los lectores no podemos dejar de celebrar. Cumpliendo a cabalidad la máxima borgiana de que los libros se corrigen solos con el paso...

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta SkPlodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...

An elucidation in Spanish of the dramatic intentions and accomplishments of the two best imitators of the inspired craftsmanship of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, this is the first monograph to be published on Rojas Zorilla and Moreto for at least two decades. Following an introductory section, in which she discusses and compares the differing attitudes and methods of the two dramatists, the author concentrates on their respective achievements in the genres which they practiced with enthusiasm and ability. Among the comedies and serious secular plays selected for analysis are not only their...