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An important but often overlooked function of comedy is its intrinsic relation to questions of identity. This relationship, furthermore, is connected to another traditional feature of comedy: the utopian impulse. This book analyses these functions of comedy in the novels of four key postmodern Spanish-American...

Acerca de la primera y única edición, hasta este momento, de 'Celia en la revolución' dice Andrés Trapiello en su prólogo: "lo que sucedió con (este) libro fue misteriosísimo, un caso único. Apenas publicado, desapareció de las librerías y únicamente en el mercado de viejo ha ido apareciendo...

This rich and unforgettable story of sexual intrigue and political scheming, written by the Spanish feminist and intellectual Emilia Pardo Bazan, deserves recognition as one of the great nineteenth-century novels. The House of Ulloa follows pure and pious Father Julián Alvarez, who is sent...

Don Quixote de la Mancha is a novel by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and is considered one of the best novels in history. The first part was published in 1605 and the second in 1615. It is one of the earliest written novels in a modern European language and is arguably the most influential and emblematic work in the canon of Spanish literature.

The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deeply philosophical, Cervantes’ novel and its characters...

The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest — the creation of a modern novel that ‘conquers’ and assimilates countless literary genres. Don Quixote among the Saracens...

De un autor censurado en el Quijote: Antonio de Torquemada, ensayo de Alfonso Reyes , es un tomo de la serie del FCE "Cenzontle". Otros autores de la colección: Carmen Boullosa, Jan de Vos, Norbert Elias, Carlos García Gual, Luis Felipe Fabre, Claudio Lomnitz, Andrea Martínez Barcas, Ruy Pérez Tamayo.

Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved individual...

A groundbreaking cultural history of the most influential, most frequently translated, and most imitated novel in the world. The year 2015 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the complete Don Quixote of La Mancha—an ageless masterpiece that has proven unusually fertile...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Diadorim (Grande sertão : veredas), l’unique roman de João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967), est publié en 1956, dix ans après ses débuts en prose avec les contes novateurs de Sagarana. Une fiche de lecture spécialement...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le Siècle des Lumières est certainement le livre le plus abouti de l’écrivain cubain Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980). On apprend à la fin du roman qu’il a été écrit entre 1956 et 1958, dans différents lieux (la Guadeloupe,...

Una nueva y estimulante colección de textos personales y críticos de Javier Marías, aclamado autor de Los enamoramientos y Corazón tan blanco, que abarcan más de veinte años de su trabajo como escritor. Javier Marías es un incansable examinador del mundo que nos rodea: ensayista, novelista,...

This book explores the environment and cultural context of Colombian political novels published between 1951 and 1987. Challenging the label of «novelas de la violencia», the author analyses them as products of their own historical time and takes into account their broader implications, such as...

In this volume González explores how the effects of a traumatic colonial experience are (re)presented to Latin American children today, almost two centuries after the dismantling of colonialism proper. Central to this study is the argument that the historical constraints of colonialism, neocolonialism,...