Segundos

Con este exhaustivo trabajo de campo Susana Chas da cuenta de la producción novelística de Córdoba en el período comprendido entre 2004 y 2010. Se trata de un minucioso compendio que recorre esa vasta y heterogénea producción, agrupándola en ejes temáticos o de géneros. Son más de 270 las novelas que se comentan en este volumen, a partir de una lectura que intenta ubicar tendencias, subgéneros y corrimientos estéticos en torno al canon. Los que pintan la aldea II está destinado a convertirse en un clásico por su valioso aporte al campo literario de la región.

"El hijo del pobre" es una obra de plena actualidad, que nos remonta a aquella Argelia colonizada en la que muchos argelinos, como último recurso para salir de la espiral de la pobreza, emprendieron la ruta de Francia para trabajar. Es considerada uno de los hitos de la narrativa argelina de expresión francesa.

"Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a ...

This critical edition of the novel Sab (published in 1840 in Madrid) is based on the Cuban printing of the 1970s. It is of particular interest not only because of its aesthetic qualities but also because it addresses issues of interest both for the period in which it was written and contemporary audiences. Among these topics are slavery, basic rights of the individual in society, nationalism, and women's issues.