Sabiduría griega y paradoja cristiana

(Françoise Sagan - Bertolt Brecht - Saint-Exupéry - Simone de Beauvoir - Paul Valéry - Saint-John Perse). Trad. esp. de V. GARCÍA YEBRA.

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...

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions

Esta mirada a la cultura escrita colombiana del siglo XX, a través del famoso y longevo manual de historia de Henao y Arrubla, 1911, los Escolios a un texto implícito, publicados por Nicolás Gómez Dávila entre los sesenta y los noventa, y un cuento y tres novelas de Gabriel García Márquez, busca comparar la manera como estos textos construyen la narrativa del Uno y el Otro en las tradiciones de nuestro pasado. Se postula la tesis de que estos monumentos verbales mediatizan dos tendencias de la relación con la otredad: una que prolonga en el pasado siglo la jerarquía y relación...

A thorough study of the life and works of the Chilean poet, winner of the 1991 "Premio Pablo Neruda."