Gérard de Nerval

Se recoge en este volumen trabajos que los miembros de la James Joyce Spanish Society han producido durante el periodo transcurrido entre los Encuentros James Joyce VIII y IX. Algunos de ellos se prensentaron en la última edición de estos Encuentros (Jaén, abril 1998) en forma de comunicación o ponencias para su discurso y debate. Otros son enteramente originales.

Dicen que la inteligencia en la mujer es un pecado, pero un pecado sería tenerla y no utilizarla. París, siglo XVI. Aaliss, la protagonista de esta historia, a partir de un incidente que sufre con tan solo siete años, vive un momento que marcará toda su existencia. Tendrá que luchar a lo largo de su vida, con la ayuda de su padre y de su amor, para poder conseguir lo que se propone. Un hecho fortuito en su edad adulta hará que Aaliss pueda vivir en dos épocas diferentes. Esto nos sumergirá en una apasionante novela en la que veremos las diferencias que existen entre una mujer de su...

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

This work is premised on the assumption that the time that has transpired since the original exodus after the Cuban Revolution has been sufficient to establish a definable Cuban American literature. This volume, which includes 29 authors writing in Spanish who have lived in the United States since at least 1970, is wide ranging in its aspirations and provides samples of the two fundamental components of Cuban American literature.