Hombres fatales

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...

La obra, guiada por criterios claros y comprometidos, da cuenta de los principales textos, autores, movimientos, tendencias y géneros que dibujan el corpus literario argentino en forma sucinta pero rigurosa y funcional.

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Francisco de Aldana reune las virtudes humanas y literarias del siglo XVI. Su vida puede encuadrarse como la del perfecto soldado, capitan muerto en una campana militar, y su obra destaca por el compendio de rasgos renacentistas.