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Hay fechas y gestos que se convierten en metáfora de un período histórico. El de Lutero en 1517, según quiere la tradición, cuando clava las 95 tesis en la puerta de la iglesia de Wittenberg, permanece en el imaginario como momento detonante de una ruptura religiosa, política e intelectual que modificaría la vida de occidente. Este gesto ocasionó una deflagración inesperada en parte al entrar en contacto con ideas previas que se habían materializado el año 1516 en algunos textos emblemáticos: De inmortalitate animae de Pomponazzi, la Utopía de Tomás Moro, el Novum Instrumentum...

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

Ines is a nine-year-old girl who spends the afternoons with her neighbor Lupe, an elderly woman with a vivid imagination. Lupe asks Ines to write letters to son Lucas, however, reality and fantasy seem to blend in Lupe's mind, as if some mice were gnawing at her memories.

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