El mulato

Este libro es un estudio completo de la repeticion textual y la intertextualidad en toda la obra narrativa de Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Especificamente, analiza la repeticion de argumentos, personajes y episodios de texto en texto a traves de su trayectoria como narrador. Este tipo de repeticion autointertextual-i.e., la repeticion de material textual entre los escritos de un solo autor ha sido extensamente explotado por Garcia Marquez como modo de produccion. Por lo tanto, una comprension de este aspecto importante de su arte de narrar aumenta nuestra comprension y admiracion de su logro...

El éxito extraordinario de los libros del sacerdote y humanista Charles Moeller dan nueva actualidad a Sabiduría griega y paradoja cristiana, una de sus primeras obras. En ella Moeller, que ha inaugurado un género literario nuevo, el de la crítica literaria y teológica, analiza y contrasta las relaciones entre el mundo griego y el cristianismo a través de sus respectivas concepciones del Mal, del pecado y de la libertad, ciñéndose a grandes autores como Virgilio, Racine, Cicerón, Shakespeare, Platón, Dostoievski y otros. El «hombre nuevo» de san Pablo en contraposición al hombre...

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

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...