La escuela del desencanto

Laura asks her father whether or not various animals fart like people do and he tries to imagine if the animals do or not.

Este libro demuestra la relevancia de la figura femenina en el teatro del dramaturgo inglés Edward Bond, a pesar de ser un campo de investigación totalmente olvidado para la crítica. Para Bond, el teatro presenta una clara función didáctica más que estética ya que transforma el escenario en un foro de discusión sobre la situación social. La visión panorámica de las mujeres de sus primeras obras persigue como objetivo principal dilucidar la evolución femenina como personaje dramático en el universo de un autor marcadamente político.

Childhood is a fundamental theme in the works of Ana Maria Matute, and also one of the key issues for the study of the aesthetic narrative of the writer. This thesis presents an analysis of the image of childhood in the works of Matute written for adults, observed in two distinct literary contexts: that of the realistic novels and of the fantastic works. This division also corresponds, though not mathematically, to the two creative periods of the writer, so that the continuity and evolution of both the theme and the aesthetic techniques throughout the author's entire literary career can be...

Within the historic events in the 1930's Spain, among whose most important outcome stands the triumph of the Spanish Second Republic (1931), Jose Diaz Fernandez released his book of essays, El Nuevo Romanticismo (The New Romanticism), a compendium of his observations on art, literature, feminism, liberalism, and politics, all five understood as parts of the vital and social processes. Besides being a panoramic scan of the issues that marked the Spanish and European culture during the period between wars, this book expresses a defined will to guide the artistic Avant Gardes and to consolidate...