Exilios femeninos

Juan's father, a fisherman, is caught in a storm and returns very ill. Guided by his friend, the Moon, Juan takes a magical trip to the bottom of the sea and recaptures his father's health from an ornery octopus.

La imagen de Ernest Hemingway en la barrera, con boina y la mirada puesta en el ruedo, ha llegado a ser un tópico en el recuerdo colectivo del autor en España, aunque no es una fiel representación de lo que era para los españoles de esa época el norteamericano. Después de muchas décadas sin conocer la narrativa del Premio Nobel de 1954, los españoles empezaron a leer sus obras en los años cincuenta y los críticos y escritores a analizarla y valorarla. Sin olvidar su afición por los toros y su imagen popular, este libro documenta la recepción de la obra del norteamericano en la...

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.

"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.