La Mara

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...

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...

Siete mariposas enamoradas de su imagen. Seis horas y una invasión de ratones. Cinco aves mágicas. Cuatro joyas y un príncipe que hace el gorila. Tres perros que luchan contra sus miedos. Dos peces que sueñan con su libertad. Uno, un pequeño elefante blanco que disfruta con ser diferente y... ¡Cero!, y un ratoncito de campo muy especial. Fernando Alonso retoma la estructura de " El misterioso influjo de la barquillera " , y sustituye la manivela de la barquillera por la cuenta atrás del lanzamiento de un cohete, que será el detonante de estas narraciones.

Un vicio, una fiebre, una neurosis que se inicia en la infancia y prospera: así se presenta en este libro la lectura, como una experiencia radical, intensa. Hace falta desdoblarse, verse a sí mismo bajo la perspectiva de una tercera persona, para describir las obsesiones que conforman el identikit del lector Alan Pauls: su adn, esa ley del deseo irrefrenable que funda la continuidad (no la escisión) entre vida y arte. Un paso más allá del lector apasionado, Trance propone un glosario de la lectura vivida hasta el fanatismo.