El extraordinario viaje de Prudence

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"¿Conoces a Claude? ¡No es un perro cualquiera! Un paseo por la ciudad lo lleva a dar saltos y mover el trasero, para acabar como bailarín en un teatro ¡bajo los focos!"--Page 4 of cover.

Después de dos décadas de analizar la ironía literaria en escritores europeos como Voltaire, Italo Calvino, Milan Kundera, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, Leonardo Sciacia o Dino Buzzati, así como en autores latinoamericanos como Juan Rulfo, Felisberto Hernández, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa o Mario Bellatin, la autora expone en este libro los rasgos que, desde su perspectiva, comparten las narrativas irónicas modernas y, sobre todo, contemporáneas. Paradoja, levedad, multiplicidad, desvelo del artificio e intertextualidad son las cualidades que se analizan a lo largo del...

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.