Trazos impersonales

Mariana está a punto de cumplir doce años cuando su paá le presenta a Sara, su nueva novia, una mujer sospechosamente perfecta. Con ayuda de sus incondicionales amigos Rocío y Francisco, Marina decide desenmascarar a Sara e impedir que se convierta en la temible madrastra de los cuentos.

Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man in Costa Rica, would rather practice playing his tuba, but he is called to the mountain resort of Monteverde to investigate an armed robbery of a group of tourists, and Pacheco soon finds himself pitted against a group of clever professional criminals.

La escuela “formalista” rusa de los años veinte se conocía muy irregularmente hasta que en 1965 Todorov reunió y tradujo al francés, por sugerencia de Genette, estos 14 ensayos trascendentales, precedidos de sendas introducciones de Jakobson y del propio Todorov que hacen el balance y definen las perspectivas de la obra de estos grandes estéticos soviéticos del lenguaje literario.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...