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Nicolás y su familia se acaban de mudar a su nuevo hogar, justo enfrente de su colegio. La noche antes del inicio del curso escolar algo le sobresalta. Una bola brillante y algo aterradora, como un meteorito, cruza el cielo frente a la ventana de su cuarto y parece estrellarse en unos árboles muy próximos. La casa entera se zarandea, pero sólo él, desvelado por los nervios del primer día de cole, parece percatarse.

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

«Miguel Gutiérrez fue un formidable ensayista. Comparte con Vargas Llosa la "Celebración de la novela" (título emblemático de sus ensayos reunidos) como el género por excelencia de lostiempos modernos». Ricardo González Vigil Este libro es el testimonio de un lector infatigable y escritor minucioso. Un creador comprometido con su vocación que supo encauzar estas dos actividades en su mayor pasión: la literatura. Y en ella se ubica «la novela» como el epicentro de cada uno de sus ímpetus, que van desde la lectura inicial de la obra de Dostoievski hasta llegar al análisis de la...

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...