The Strife of Tongues

A partir del análisis de La Regenta, la novela de Leopoldo Alas, y tomando como referencia dos obras literarias fundacionales, como Madame Bovary de Flaubert y Middlemarch de George Eliot, la autora se adentra en esos universos literarios con dos objetivos muy claros que se interrelacionan: en primer lugar, examinar globalmente el fenómeno del tedio que se conoce como ennui, sus rasgos esenciales y su papel en el entramado cultural europeo decimonónico; en segundo lugar, analizar cómo este fenómeno se manifiesta en la configuración de un tipo de personaje femenino que, a partir de este...

Grandma Vladimira was always fun and full of energy until she became ill. Her grandchildren remember her fondly and appreciate the legacy she left them.

Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic. Born in New York City, reared in Arizona and California, educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne,...

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...