El presente incómodo

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...

¿Un libro sobre mujeres escrito por mujeres? En Femenino singular. Revisiones del canon literario iberoamericano contemporáneo, doce autoras y un autor de distintos continentes diseccionan, con perspectiva de género, la obra de otras tantas escritoras españolas e hispanoamericanas relativamente actuales, aunque también, en dos ocasiones, textos y personajes femeninos creados por sendos escritores varones, tan diferentes entre ellos como lo son Antonio Gala y Pablo Simonetti. Entre las escritoras analizadas, se incluyen algunas emergentes, que están alcanzando prestigio en los últimos...

Narnia..., un mundo congelado..., una tierra que aguarda su liberación. Cuatro niños descubren un armario que les sirve de puerta de acceso a Narnia, un país congelado en un invierno eterno y sin Navidad. Entonces, cumpliendo con las viejas profecías, los niños —junto con el león Aslan—serán los encargados de liberar al reino de la tiranía de la Bruja Blanca y recuperar el verano, la luz y la alegría para todos los habitantes de Narnia.