Los Aleph: Bolaño y la novela global latinoamericana

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay...

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...

Emilio es un muchaho de 17 años a quien detiene la policía por robar un coche, una tienda y conducir temerariamente. Como es menor de edad y no puede ingresar en prisión, el juez decreta su ingreso en el reformatorio Leonardo Valverde. Dos policías lo llevan hasta allí en helicóptero. Pero para su sorpresa, cuando aterrizan, lo dejan en medio de un bosque, donde no encuentra ningún reformatorio ni a nadie a quien preguntar. Al día siguiente, se encuentra con un pastor y su rebaño y, tras algunas diferencias, se queda con él. Pero allí, la vida no es nada fácil...

La primera monografía académica en ocuparse de la historia del icono cleopátrico en la cultura española. The first thorough study of the history of the Cleopatra icon in Spanish culture.