El extraordinario viaje de Prudence

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

En las últimas décadas, pocas novelas tuvieron un impacto tan significativo y perdurable como Las Islas, de Carlos Gamerro. Se editó en 1998, en pleno declive de la utopía menemista, y desde entonces no ha hecho más que incrementar su prestigio. El título, como los lectores saben, alude a la Guerra de Malvinas. El conflicto es el disparador. Las heridas de los ex combatientes conviven con las paranoias del poder; los subsuelos de los servicios de inteligencia con la ambición de buscar la verdad y acaso consumar una venganza. La oscuridad y el horror de la guerra ensombrecen la memoria, ...

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Francisco de Aldana reune las virtudes humanas y literarias del siglo XVI. Su vida puede encuadrarse como la del perfecto soldado, capitan muerto en una campana militar, y su obra destaca por el compendio de rasgos renacentistas.