El signo del centauro

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.

El presente volumen en realidad constituye una teoría, stricto sensu, de la literatura y de las clases de ésta. En él se reúne debidamente organizado un conjunto de escritos sobre la idea y los conceptos de Literatura así como de la serie de géneros literarios. Se trata de textos producidos durante unas tres décadas. Puede decirse que mucho se ha escrito sobre esta materia, pero desde luego no tanto con investigación y reflexión extensas y fundamentadoras, además de resultados teóricos y descriptivos de sentido y valor general. La Literatura debe ser definida mediante criterio de...

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...

Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economía en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student of...