Jorge Eduardo Eielson

This collection of essays presents views on Don Quijote by noted Latin American philosophers, historians, sociologists, poets, and novelists. It intends to make the student of Hispanic culture aware of the profound love and admiration that Hispanic America has always demonstrated toward Cervantes and his masterpiece. Until now, the contributions of Latin American intellectuals to Cervantine studies have largely been ignored in publications in the United States. Written in Spanish, this text will be useful to the student and scholar of Hispanic literature and Latin American Studies.

"The author uncovers and reconstructs the Taino Arawak system of communication. Areas covered include phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, and lexicon, not to mention important considerations regarding onomastics and toponymy."

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions

Novela de gran actualidad en la que Galdós retrata la corrupción de los políticos y de la corte española, Memorias de un cortesano de 1815 (1875) forma parte de los Episodios Nacionales y narra el ascenso social de Juan de Pipaón, un arribista que llega a integrar la caricaturesca camarilla de Fernando VII. Llena de humor y crítica social, la obra da continuidad a la mejor tradición picaresca hispánica. El protagonista del libro, que narra en primera persona su experiencia, en forma de testimonio, relata corruptelas y trapicheos de favores. Piapón -símbolo del cortesano de entonces...