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...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.

Un provocador ensayo sobre la ayuda humanitaria y sus contradicciones, a través de apasionantes experiencias personales. ¿Salvar a los demás para salvarse a uno mismo? Apodado el Pasafronteras a raíz de su entrada ilegal en Zaire, Jordi Raich pasó tres semanas encarcelado en Uganda acusado de espiar para la CIA, estuvo perdido en el desierto somalí con el ejército italiano a la espera de un general que nunca llegó, fue atacado por los heridos que salvó del bombardeado hospital de Vukovar, repartió comida bajo el fuego de morteros rebeldes durante el asedio a Monrovia e hizo jogging...

If the flame on your dragon went out, would you know what to do? Luckily, the answer can be found right in this book! It's ideal for reading aloud since it combines a mixture of script and print writing.

With the mixture of erudition and amenity that characterizes it, Rdiger Safranski traces, first, the biography of the exceptional movement called Romanticism, which lasts about thirty years and hatch in the passage of the XVII century to the XVIII century, through the portrait and analysis of authors such as Herder, Fichte, Schelling, Schiller and Hoffmann. Then the 'romantic' attitude which, in the words of Novalis, is to confer to the vulgar a higher sense.