The Strife of Tongues

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 ...

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

This novel is unique in the time period. Written in Spanish, by a French author, and published in Paris, the title (Deceits of this World) relates to a well-established genre wherein literature and morality were intertwined. Loubayssin writes with irony and wit. It is delicately erotic, a feature that cannot be found in its Spanish counterparts, due to the repressive censorship in Spain at that time. - In Spanish.

Les veus dissidents s'han deixat sentir en cada fase de la història nord-americana, generant sempre instàncies de resistència al poder i posant en qüestió definicions interessades i hegemòniques de la identitat nacional. Aquest volum pretén explorar el passat, present i futur de la dissidència 'fonamentalment a partir de les seues representacions culturals' a fi d'entendre el que el passat pot dir-nos sobre la realitat nord-americana del segle XXI, al seu torn, com aquesta realitat ens ajuda a desvetllar les arrels de la seva història nacional.