Patronio y Lucanor

Juan va a tener un hermanito y, junto con sus padres, se prepara para recibirlo. Una historia amable y tranquilizadora para ayudar a tu hijo en esta nueva experiencia. Con pegatinas para que el niño se pueda premiar.

Esta monografía propone una lectura histórica de los últimos veinte años de la vida y obra de Benito Pérez Galdós, con especial dedicación a su producción narrativa. Se trata de un estudio novedoso sobre uno de los periodos más controvertidos para la crítica galdosiana, cuyos resultados a día de hoy se traducen en investigaciones dispersas, conectadas entre sí tan solo de manera parcial. Por ello, este trabajo relaciona su producción escrita (novelas, piezas teatrales, artículos, prólogos, discursos y correspondencia) con su actividad pública (política e intelectual)....

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...

This edition comprises selected examples of the Cuban writer Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta' s prose, including her best known novel and samples of her short stories, essays and journalism works. These texts range from raw realism to lyrical exaltation; from the direct portayal of the historical moment to the meticulous insight of the human psyche. Her peculiar naturalism bloomed under the influence of the philosophical currents of her times, encompassing echoes of Positivism, but after a passionate discussion against Existentialism her writing steerer towards the Latin American avant-garde...