Estudios de erudición y homenaje a Menéndez Pelayo

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...

Cuando llegó a Brasil en 1968, Pere Casaldàliga era un sacerdote que procedía de una família tradicional y de derechas y que se había formado en el ambiente cerrado de la España franquista. Ahora, treinta y dos años después, es un obispo que ha sido amenazado de muerte muchas veces, está comprometido con la Teología de la Liberación y se ha enfrentado con la dictadura militar, los poderosos locales y también con el Vaticano.Francesc Escribano nació en Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) en 1958. Es profesor asociado de Comunicación Audiovisual en la Universidad Autónoma de...

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions