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Antonio Negrín, trece años, se da un tiro en el salón de clases. Nadie puede explicar su inmolación. Alejandra Llure, madre del muchacho y directora del museo regional de Orizaba, acude al agente Max Retana en un intento de esclarecer el caso. La clave podría estar en una jovencita que entra en éxtasis para transformarse en la mismísima Frida Kahlo. Entonces la novela viaja a los años trágicos que sobrellevó la prodigiosa pintora mexicana, a los ladrones de arte que violan sacristías y mansiones donde se atesoran cuadros de perturbadora obscenidad, y al régimen que siembra el...

De la ingente producción de Aristóteles (toda la información sobre su figura y su obra puede verse en la "Introducción general" al autor incluida en el núm. 14 de esta colección) son numerosas las obras conservadas, pero también son muchas las que se

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...

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

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...