Pervivencia del mundo clásico en la literatura

Javier Casanova es un modesto profesor de autoescuela en una ciudad de provincias. De improviso, una serie de extrañas y repentinas circunstancias convierten su vida en una pesadilla. Una vida que , como la de tantos hombres, también guarda un secreto. Un secreto en el que se esconden las varias mujeres que conoció años atrás en situaciones nada claras. Unas situaciones que al final acabarán desvelando el secreto. Con ritmo semejante al del thriller clásico, la novela va desarrollando una trama que nos sumerge sucesivamente en distintas atmósferas, del relato sentimental a la crónica ...

This work is premised on the assumption that the time that has transpired since the original exodus after the Cuban Revolution has been sufficient to establish a definable Cuban American literature. This volume, which includes 29 authors writing in Spanish who have lived in the United States since at least 1970, is wide ranging in its aspirations and provides samples of the two fundamental components of Cuban American literature.

The five novels written by Juan José Millás between 1988 and 1998 (El desorden de tu nombre; La soledad era esto, Volver a casa; Tonto, muerto, bastardo e invisible; and El orden alfabético) display an increasing preoccupation with a limited number of themes, principally identity and social criticism. They also demonstrate the constant reiteration of a specific group of motifs, an increasing use of metafictional devices, and the use of bizarre or mentally disturbed protagonists. Millás presents writing as the compulsive expression of obsessive thought. This book explains Millás's...

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.