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La historia secreta del autogol político y empresarial de Mayne-Nicholls, Bielsa y el fútbol chileno.

Verano de 1940. Leonor, esposa de un alto cargo republicano fusilado al final de la guerra, y su hija Camila son enviadas a un destierro forzoso a la isla de Cabrera. Como única compañía tendrán al matrimonio que atiende una cantina miserable, algún pescador, un ermitaño alemán y un destacamento militar atemorizado por un posible ataque del ejército inglés. Entretanto, en Mallorca, un hombre recibe un encargo de las autoridades que puede redimirle de su turbio pasado. Pedro Zarraluki se sirve de una trama apasionante para convertir esta isla mediterránea en un orbe singular en el...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction. This sound analysis of some twenty-five novels, carefully illustrated by works little treated in...