Siete clases de ambigüedad

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Si la profundización democrática requiere de una memoria robusta, consciente de los desastres de la historia española del siglo XX y sin miedo de ofender ni de reescribirse, necesita por igual de una identidad apartada del encierro en lo íntimo o en lo más propio de la tribu. Memoria e identidad se combinan para integrar al disidente y al diferente, y alumbrar formas de ser y de estar más abiertas y ajenas a lo uniforme. Txetxu Aguado enseña literatura española y comparada en Dartmouth College (EE.UU.). Su anterior libro se titula La tarea política: narrativa y ética en la España...

The five novels written by Juan José Millás between 1988 and 1998 (El desorden de tu nombre; La soledad era esto, Volver a casa; Tonto, muerto, bastardo e invisible; and El orden alfabético) display an increasing preoccupation with a limited number of themes, principally identity and social criticism. They also demonstrate the constant reiteration of a specific group of motifs, an increasing use of metafictional devices, and the use of bizarre or mentally disturbed protagonists. Millás presents writing as the compulsive expression of obsessive thought. This book explains Millás's...

En este trabajo se analizan comparativamente los "Bildungsromane femeninos" de la escritora mexicana Carmen Boullosa y de la chicana Sandra Cisneros. This work is a comparative analysis of the female Bildungsromane of Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa and Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros.