La estética literaria de la posguerra

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...

Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literature, from pre-Columbian times to the present, covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.

Laura asks her father whether or not various animals fart like people do and he tries to imagine if the animals do or not.

Este estudio se centra en la representación y el significado de Madrid en la novelística de las primeras cuatro décadas del s. XX. Se establece el espacio social y su relación con el capitalismo simbólico para afirmar que no sólo Madrid es el corazón de la actividad financiera nacional, sino que también durante el período de la Edad de Plata se consagra como el gran centro cultural de España. El contexto del s. XX caracterizado por el capitalismo incipiente, los desajustes sociales, la violencia civil, unido a las guerras de Cuba, Filipinas, Marruecos, Monjuïc y una larga lista de...