Trazos impersonales

Leo Stepanovich Demidov, un prometedor agente del MGB, el servicio secreto ruso, y su mujer son acusados de un delito de traición que no han cometido. La pareja se refugia en las colinas y descubre que varios niños han sido brutalmente asesinados, un terrible episodio del que el Partido Comunista se desentiende. Leo decide emprender una investigación por su cuenta para esclarecer esas muertes, a sabiendas de que arriesga su vida y la de su mujer.

La 'Colación muy provechosa' de Fray Hernando de Talavera figura entre los primeros escritos dirigidos a la reina Isabel en el primer lustro de gobierno. La obra potencia la renovación individual y resalta las propiedades simbólicas de la reina de las aves. Esta pieza sermonaria, puso en manos de Isabel un programático discurso moral para uso de la nueva gobernadora. En el 'Breve Tractado de los loores de San Juan Evangelista' presidido por la doctrina cristológica, es una alabanza perfecta del apóstol, en una argumentación dialéctica implacable, destinada a canalizar la dimensión...

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...

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