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Seeking to understand the economic relations between author and publisher, this study analyzes the place of Roberto Bolaño in the Latin American literary canon through the texts of Jorge Herralde. After showing how the work of the 1998 Premio Herralde winner has been commodified, Lèal offers a critical reading of the writer figure, as represented in three key moments of Bolaño’s short story production.

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

Le tre commedie presentate, che apparvero postume nella Vega del Parnaso di Lope de Vega, rivelano interessanti percorsi testuali. Nel caso del Guante de doña Blanca assistiamo ad un intreccio di fonti: una diffusa leggenda spagnola, già raccolta dal letterato Matteo Bandello (Castelnuovo Scrivia 1485 - Agen 1561), probabilmente ravviva l'interesse di Lope per il racconto, che tuttavia egli ambienta in un mitico Portogallo medioevale; a questo "viaggio" risponde poi quello della diffusione del testo letterario a stampa, tra le Partes non autorizzate e la raccolta curata dall'autore....