Los grandes libros para los más pequeños

El estudio demuestra que en la obra de Fernando de Rojas la parodia no se limita a los elementos típicos del amor cortés, sino a la novela sentimental en conjunto mediante inversiones, absurdos, ironías, sarcasmos e incongruencias.

Dice Rodolfo Alonso sobre el autor: "Absolutamente inerme para sobrevivir en la vida cotidiana, en la vida burguesa, los avatares de la existencia y del destino de Baudelaire lo convirtieron también (…) en el primer poeta maldito, en el primer Cristo del arte, al que seguirían tantos ejemplos de “suicidados por la sociedad”, como bien dijo Antonin Artaud".

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...

This volume contains an examination of what are described as the most poetic examples of Chilean prose written in the 20th century. By adopting Ralph Freedman's conceptual definition of lyrical narrative and using it as her point of departure, Professor Kostopolos-Cooperman argues that the protean and magical nature of Bombal's lyrical prose transcends the causal, temporal and spatial movement that characterizes conventional fiction. In her view, Bombal's work is rather a narrative that arises in the poetic imagination of a narrator who creates a tapestry of expanding musical and pictorial...