Espadaña y las vanguardias

Una mosca se paseaba contenta y despreocupada por el bosque, cuando de pronto apareció una araña que se la comió. Luego la araña es comida.. y luego por... ¡Ufff!

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...

En este segundo tomo se aborda el periodo especialmente complejo de Brasil que va de 1930 a 1936 en el que Reyes tuvo que sortear las complicaciones políticas derivadas del inicio de la dictadura de Getulio Vargas, al mismo tiempo que insiste en la promoción de la cultura y el intercambio de ideas.

Reviewers have celebrated this important volume as the first comprehensive critical appraisal of the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate for literature. The volume features an introduction, an extensive annotated bibliography, an index, and Aleixandre's Nobel Prize acceptance lecture.