Las Novelas de Maria de Zayas (1590-1650)

En este libro se indaga la presencia del autor norteamericano William Faulkner en la novelística latinoamericana, propiamente en los escritores del Boom cuyas producciones se dieron en las décadas de los años cincuenta y sesenta, pues, en parte influidos por él, introdujeron una nueva y revolucionaria sensibilidad en el ámbito narrativo. Nuestros escritores se identificaron con el ambiente de pobreza imperante y de abandono que resume el entorno faulkneriano –que también se aviene al desposeimiento del mundo latino– cuyos textos, al involucrar condiciones económicas y políticas...

Aunque nacida en diferentes países, la literatura tiene diversos denominadores comunes que, en definitiva, la hacen universal. Pero esa universalidad es obra de mutuos influjos y de interrelaciones dispares. Compararlas es el objeto de esta nueva disciplina, la literatura comparada, de la que este libro colectivo es introducción teórica e interesante muestrario de casos ejemplares.

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.