Testimonio hispanoamericano

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...

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

¿Perdido en un libro? Existe un mapa para el caso. El aclamado cartógrafo Andrew DeGraff ha desarrollado una obra de arte detallada y sorprendente que adentra a los lectores en los paisajes de Odisea, Hamlet, Robinson Crusoe, Orgullo y prejuicio, Moby Dick, El hombre invisible, Una arruga en el tiempo, La colina de Watership y otras más. Esta amplia colección de mapas, inspirados por obras clásicas de la literatura, ofrece a los amantes de los libros una perspectiva fresca de mundos ficcionales icónicos. Trazado ofrece una vía exclusiva para apreciar los territorios de la imaginación...

In Gronjor, a world that's half light and half shadow, a group of hunters traverse the untamed dark side. They're headed towards the labyrinth, the most savage zone on the planet, populated by wild animals that work to throw center-seekers off their path. Gronjor's delicate equilibrium depends on this cruel process of selection controlled by the sorcerer Milosh. There's little cause for hope, except for a prophecy that speaks of an imminent change...

Cees Nooteboom, que ha viajado por todos los continentes y ha recorrido el mundo de la literatura, visita a sus «muertos amados» allá donde se encuentren para entablar diálogos con ellos, para verificar sus palabras, su inmortalidad. Peregrinó a la tumba de Neruda en Chile, a las de Vallejo y Cortázar en París, a la de Antonio Machado en Collioure, a la de Stevenson en Samoa y a la de Kawabata en Japón; a las de Keats y Shelley en Roma, en el «cementerio de los extranjeros», donde también reposan el hijo de Goethe y uno de los hijos de Wilhelm von Humboldt; a las de Thomas Mann,...