La conclusión del Amadís de Gaula

Vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert erfand der uruguay-ische Autor Juan Carlos Onetti die fiktive Stadt Santa María und legte damit den Grundstein für einen faszinierenden lite-rarischen Kosmos. Mit Romanen wie La vida breve (dt. Das kurze Leben), El astillero (dt. Die Werft) oder Juntacadáveres (dt. Leichensammler) wurde er zu einem der einflussreichsten Schriftsteller der lateinamerikanischen Moderne. Er schrieb über das Scheitern, Entfremdung und die Unmöglichkeit der Liebe ohne dabei seine Figuren zu verraten. 1980 erhielt er den Premio Cervantes, die höchste literarische...

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...

El género novela histórica vivió a finales del siglo XX una singular renovación en América Latina. En la literatura colombiana este fenómeno se expresó en dos grandes tendencias: la que prolongaba la visión hegemónica de la historia nacional y la que contestaba esa visión poniendo en la escena de la historia precolonial, colonial y republicana la variopinta diversidad cultural e histórica colombiana, sólo reconocida formalmente a partir de la Constitución política de 1991. Este libro aborda este contraste a través del estudio de algunas de las novelas históricas publicadas...

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...