¿Por qué narrar? Cuentos contados y cuentos por contar

Ponencias del I Congreso Internacional celebrado en la Universidad de Bordeaux III (Francia, 1988) dedicado a César Vallejo: poeta, pero también teórico de la escritura, novelista, dramaturgo y periodista del siglo XX.

Since the recent republication of her novel The Squatter and the Don, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-95) has become a key figure in the recovery of nineteenth-century Mexican American literature. An aristocratic Californiana, she championed the rights of Mexican Americans in novels, plays, and letters. Her 1885 novel called attention to the illegal appropriation of Mexican land by the United States government, and she critiqued the political mores of America after the Civil War in light of the Mexican-American war. Her keen assessment of corporate capitalism at the end of the nineteenth...

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.

¿Existio el «boom» de la literatura hispanoamericana? En un estilo que auna la falta de academicismo y la informacion mas precisa, Ana Maria Navales nos revela interesantes consideraciones sobre este fenomeno literario hispanoamericano que, se llame como se llame, partio de la herencia de los «abuelos» (Leopoldo Lugones, Jose Marti, Roberto Arlt, Miguel Angel Asturias, Jorge Luis Borges), fue hermano del optimismo que trajo consigo el triunfo de la Revolucion Cubana y tuvo como resultado un indudable acopio de lectores en todo el mundo. Con el tiempo todos sus miembros (Carlos Fuentes,...