Las baquetas de Javier

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

El relato marroquí en lengua árabe aparece hacia los años cuarenta a partir del desarrollo del ensayo literario, la influencia de la literatura árabe oriental y la aportación occidental. El nuevo género evoluciona a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XX gracias al progresivo perfeccionamiento del uso de las técnicas narrativas, la apertura del abanico temático y la recuperación del legado nacional.Debido a los procesos de aculturación -occidentalización y arabización-, comunes en todo el mundo árabe moderno pero indiscutiblemente más intensos y conflictivos en el Magreb, los ...

Includes reproductions from the author's diaries and notebooks and, for the first time, an unfinished short story titled Dry martini.