Postmodernismo y metaficción historiográfica (2ª ed.)

"La vida nos cambió brutalmente cuando dejamos el norte para irnos a vivir al sur, a la Casa del Alto. Todo se torció entonces, nuestras padres tuvieron que marcharse y nos dejaron solos a los tres. Mi hermana, la mayor, tenía varios nombres: Julia, Mamelai, Shirley..., aunque solo uno era el verdadero. Era una buena cuentista mi hermana, te lo aseguro, la mejor que he conocido. Me llamo Daniel Federico y no soy escritor, pero no voy a callarme nada porque nada de lo que pasó aquel verano merece ser olvidado."--Page [4] of cover.

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.

The Selection Coloring Book is the perfect companion for fans of the Selection series. It features original black-and-white line drawings of favorite characters and moments from the world of Illa, as well as stunningly designed hand-lettered quotes from all five Selection books.

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...