Arte de prudencia

In Las hojas que caen tells her own childhood story: that of a Chinese girl who suffers the abandonment of her stepmother and even her own family. Her determination to survive enables her to overcome experiences in her life which would have destroyed any human being.

Mientras que la literatura castellana se expande y triunfa, las letras gallegas y catalans viven una situación muy diferente en esta época. Mariela de la Torre, Josep Solervicens, Vicent Josep Escartí, Pedro Álvarez de Miranda, Joaquim Martí Mestre, Rosa Navarro, Eulàlia Duran, Guillermo Serés, Rolf Eberenz y Carlos Gilly ofrecen novedades y motivos de reflexión sobre una época compleja, conflictiva y en parte desatendida hasta la actualidad.

A través de un diálogo crítico en el que se entrecruzan diversas disciplinas y la crítica previa, este estudio invita al lector a profundizar en los modos como la literatura preserva instancias de la memoria colectiva y contribuye a que no se olviden situaciones que es preciso reconocer y continuar evaluando.

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...