Mas Alla de los Pilares de la Tierra / Beyond the Pillars of the Earth

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"La risa es satánica, luego es profundamente humana". Estas palabras de Charles Baudelaire centran el problema de lo cómico en una dimensión de la que hasta ahora había carecido. La risa saca a la luz la naturaleza humana y lo hace con una vivacidad que no admite réplica ni vacilación: la condición más recóndita se manifiesta. El angelismo tradicional cede paso a una compleja visión del hombre, la risa - choque perpetuo de dos infinitos, miseria absoluta respecto a la divinidad, grandeza, no menos absoluta,frente a todos los demás seres- es su expresión mejor.

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...

Aqu� todo est� en guerra. No s�lo hay muchas historias que se desarrollan en los a�os de la llamada Guerra Sucia en el Cono Sur, sino tambi�n guerra entre parejas, guerra de viejos contra la vejez, de j�venes contra la inmadurez, del erotismo contra la muerte, de mujeres contra su fisiolog�a, de transexuales contra andr�ginos, del compromiso contra el desinter�s, del lenguaje contra s� mismo. Y de estas batallas surgen importantes preguntas. Todo esto ba�ado por una malicia, mucha astucia, una capacidad de travesura y un rigor sin paralelo entre narradores...