Morir es como un cuento

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...

A collection of poems, including "The Massacre," "No Harm Shall Come," "Touched," "Evensong," and "Amberose Triste"

«Las leyes de la antigüedad dictaban que una vida se pagaba con otra, y yo tengo una deuda con ella que he de saldar». Tras atropellar conduciendo ebrio a una joven llamada Léa, Michael Weber, un escritor venido a menos, acaba embarcándose, por una serie de casualidades, en una iniciativa de lectura promovida por el hospital en el que la joven víctima de su atropello se debate entre la vida y la muerte. Aquí comenzará para él una tortuosa travesía por los rincones más oscuros de su propia culpa, una odisea que acabará causando estragos y que le hará necesitar a Léa de un modo...

Richly informed by contemporary sociological theory, Manuel de Jesus Hernandez El colonialismo interno en la narrativa chicana distinguishes between the assimilationist and the internal colonialism models of Mexican American society and culture. The author applies the internal colonialism model for the first time to the representation of Chicanos found in their narrative literature. Among the categories of narrative discussed are the espacio pochista, the migrante, and the indigenista. The book is a signal advance in the sociology of Chicano narrative and its application to significant...