VARONES INSIGNES EN LETRAS NATURALES DE LA ILUSTRISIMA CIUDAD DE SEVILLA

Otra mirada, otros contextos, otra escritura para la critica sobre Roberto Arlt; en este libro, por primera vez, sus textos son puestos en un contexto literario (y politico) internacional. La "lectura global" de Close no solo conecta a Arlt con Dostoievsky (gesto repetido en la critica) sino que lo pone en el marco general de la "ficcion conspirativa" junto con otros escritores europeos y norteamericanos, especialmente Baroja (pero tambien Turguenev, Conrad, Henry James). Asociar a Arlt con Baroja no es muy frecuente, a pesar de las ultimas referencias del mismo Arlt a su obra: los dos, dice...

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.

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 fourteen essays of this volume engage in distinct ways with the matter of motion in early modern Spanish poetics. Los catorce ensayos de este volumen conectan de una manera perceptible con el tema del movimiento en la poesía española del siglo de oro