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Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), pertenece a esa generación de escritores británicos nacidos a mediados del siglo pasado -Kipling, Stevenson, Wells, Wilde, Chesterton...- que han perpetrado las historias más imaginativas y brillantes de la literatura moderna. Conan Doyle es un caso especial, pues abordó todos los géneros literarios con igual maestría. Sherlock Holmes, en la literatura de crimen y misterio; el profesor Challenger, en la peripecia aventurera e incluso de ciencia ficción; Sir Nigel y el brigadier Gerard, en la novela y relato histórico... Todos sus personajes son en mayor ...

This work is a study of the "Galician Trilogy" written by Camilo Jose Cela, consisting of his novels "Mazurca para dos muertos" (1983), "La cruz de San Andres" (1994), and "Madera de boj" (1999).

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...