Juan José Millás

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

En toda obra literaria se afirma una realidad formal independiente de la lengua y del estilo: la escritura considerada como la relación que establece el escritor con la sociedad, el lenguaje literario trasformado por su destino social. Esta tercera dimensión de la forma tiene una historia que sigue paso a paso el desgarramiento de la conciencia burguesa: de la escritura transparente de los clásicos a la cada vez más perturbadora del siglo XIX, para llegar a la escritura neutra de nuestros días. Esta relación entre literatura e historia (entre el escritor y la sociedad) aparece ilustrada ...

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Todos los sábados, la familia de Ángeles se reúne en casa de su abuela para comer la tradicional paella. Allí, como siempre, se encuentra con su primo, algunos años mayor que ella, con el que comparte juegos, secretos... Sin embargo, a raíz de la muerte del padre de éste, su primo comienza a cambiar, y Ángeles se da cuenta de ello.