Decires de un heraldo del Caribe

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

Werner is a boy alone in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He shares his bunk with a quiet man named Herr Levin, who seems too gentle for this terrible place. One night Werner is woken by the sound of prison guards yelling. But its not Werner they want, its Herr Levin. Do your magic! they order him. Magic? In Auschwitz?

«El 1 de octubre de 1934, el editorial del diario La Época se hacía eco –entre objeciones– de los diversos homenajes tributados a Miguel de Unamuno con motivo de su jubilación como catedrático de la Universidad de Salamanca, al tiempo que lanzaba la siguiente pregunta: “¿Quién no se ha sentido un poco humillado y vejado por este desprecio absoluto al lector que Unamuno hace patente con esa especie de voluptuosidad que parece sentir al contradecirse, replicarse y contra replicarse de continuo?”. En alusión también ala heterodoxa actitud del autor para con su público que se...

Language-as signifier and signified-serves as the focus of Diz's book on the Conde Lucanor. This is, indeed, an intelligent reading of the Conde Lucanor which will have considerable impact on Juan Manuel criticism and fourteenth-century studies.