Entre la hiedra

En este mundo globalizado de migraciones e hibridaciones, la comida no solo es un conjunto de alimentos sino además, la propia acción de comer o la reunión de personas en torno a, implica una mezcla de culturas, sabores, pero también de rituales y costumbres.

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...

Contenido: Geneviève Fabry/Ilse Logie: Los imaginarios apocalípticos en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea (s. XX-XXI). Una introducción - Camille Focant: El Apocalipsis de Juan. Género literario, estructura y recepción - Julio Ortega: La alegoría del Apocalipsis en la literatura latinoamericana - Marco Kunz: Apocalipsis y cierre de la novela en la literatura hispanoamericana contemporánea - Lucero de Vivanco Roca Rey: Entre demonios y pisadiablos: Imaginario apocalíptico en la narrativa peruana - Niall Binns: Una tierra cada vez más baldía. La evolución del imaginario...

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.