Kalila y Dimna

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

El género novela histórica vivió a finales del siglo XX una singular renovación en América Latina. En la literatura colombiana este fenómeno se expresó en dos grandes tendencias: la que prolongaba la visión hegemónica de la historia nacional y la que contestaba esa visión poniendo en la escena de la historia precolonial, colonial y republicana la variopinta diversidad cultural e histórica colombiana, sólo reconocida formalmente a partir de la Constitución política de 1991. Este libro aborda este contraste a través del estudio de algunas de las novelas históricas publicadas...

Una fascinante novela sobre los males de la sociedad después de un evento apocalíptico. Will H. Corral, World Literature Toda

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...