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Critical edition of José Martínez Ruiz's experimental novel. Written in the form of a diary, this novel tells the story of a young novelist, incorporating the presence of the reader and the idea of the fictional into its discourse.

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

Los dos versos que cierran el soneto XVIII de William Shakespeare, y que ilustran la portada: «En tanto un ser aliente, o unos ojos miren / Esto estará vivo y te dará a ti vida», expresan poética y rotundamente el misterioso poder de la creación literaria, la suya propia en este caso. Su aspiración a la inmortalidad y su ambición universal no se han reducido al efecto y consiguiente enriquecimiento vital que su obra haya podido producir durante siglos en el lector o el espectador de su teatro. Sus textos han rebasado la intimidad del diálogo interpersonal para saltar a la arena del...

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).