Relatos carnavalescos

"No es posible ser sabio, estoico ni coherente las veinticuatro horas del día; es necesario saborear el placer de vivir sin la seriedad profunda de los compromisos laborales, las prácticas religiosas políticas y cívicas de la cotidianidad ¿Por qué no ser demasiado humanos para el disfrute de la vida, mirando a los ojos de mi interlocutor cuando hace memoria del pasado, o cuando saboreamos el presente El autor de Relatos Carnavalescos lleva al lector al pasado, le dice lo que se contaba en épocas de las espelmas, las velas de cebo o las lámparas de petróleo; cuando entre la cena y la...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...

El autor trata de asimilar las conclusiones de sus predecesores en el análisis crítico de esta obra, para llegar a una edición más depurada y acorde al texto original.

This volume presents ten articles about the Hispanic theatre. It presents over more than 150 pages a range of studies that go from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day of the liturgical dramatization to the process of transforming a collection of poems into a play, from Argentina and Mexico to the Canary Islands and Majorca. It pays attention to certain works ("Davallament de la Creu", the comedies El villano en su rincón, La Varona castellana y El príncipe despeñado by Lope de Vega, the prologues by Antonio de Solís, the Ifigenia by Jovellanos, Nuevo género by Felipe...

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...