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Los Quijotes del CEPLI recoge las obras que sobre el ingenioso hidalgo alberga la Biblioteca del Centro de Estudios de Promoción de la Lectura y Literatura Infantil (CEPLI) de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Más de medio centenar de volúmenes que, en sus distintas modalidades –ediciones íntegras, adaptaciones y versiones, desde 1905 hasta 2015– dan una idea de la presencia de la obra de Cervantes en esta biblioteca especializada en literatura para niños y jóvenes. El catálogo se completa, por un lado, con una muestra de las ilustraciones que han acompañado la obra de...

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...

Set in medieval Spain, an orphaned boy named Pedro has been raised in a monastery. His life changes drastically when he summoned to become a knight. He receives the help he needs to adapt to this new life thanks to two special friends. Reading comprehension and activities related to the story are included.

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...

«Aquesta selecció de 36 anys d'articles m'ha fet descobrir un Espinàs nou, més poderós, sensual i radical. Llegir-los tots d'un glop ha tingut en mi un efecte molt intens.» (Jordi Graupera, autor del pròleg). «Escric aquestes ratlles a mig gener, quan tants moments de la meva vida ja són a la impremta. »"La vida fuig i no s'atura una hora", va dir Petrarca. Té raó, però només és una raó cronològica. M'agradaria discutir-ho mentre plovisqueja i veig per la finestra una noia que passa protegida per un paraigua vermell. Com si fos una flor que camina. »Perquè la vida sí que...