El escritor y la bailarina

Este libro contiene 26 relatos del gran autor mexicano, heredero de los narradores en lengua española que, como Julio Cortázar, se han distinguido por desarrollar sus textos con gran audacia imaginativa y con amplia libertad formal. Con una decidida vocación experimental, estos relatos reúnen un conjunto de personajes singulares que adquieren vida a través de historias que apelan a la imaginación d el lector, estableciendo un vínculo de estrecha complicidad. Con una certera mirada que escruta los paisajes más insólitos detrás de la realidad cotidiana, estos textos recorren un amplio ...

Aquest llibre contribueix al debat sobre la figura i rellevància de l'obra de Zora Neale Hurston, insigne predecessora de les escriptores afroamericanes actuals. A més d'estudiar la manera que Hurston aplica a la literatura idees sobre política racial de gènere, s'exposa el procés pel qual es va convertir en una figura clau en la lluita per la transformació del cànon literari nord-americà.

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...

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.