Malandro el gato

Making a pact with the devil is not as easy as it looks. On one hand, you get fame and fortune for over 800 years, but, on the other hand, you have to become a vengeful being willing to condemn yourself to a lifetime of servitude. Prosper will try to avoid this by returning the devil Alastor to his world before he destroys her family. In order to accomplish this, she will have to avoid numerous traps, tricks, and Alastor's wicked sense of humor with only the help of her Uncle Barnabas, a witch's apprentice, and a cat with bat wings.

En este libro se indaga la presencia del autor norteamericano William Faulkner en la novelística latinoamericana, propiamente en los escritores del Boom cuyas producciones se dieron en las décadas de los años cincuenta y sesenta, pues, en parte influidos por él, introdujeron una nueva y revolucionaria sensibilidad en el ámbito narrativo. Nuestros escritores se identificaron con el ambiente de pobreza imperante y de abandono que resume el entorno faulkneriano –que también se aviene al desposeimiento del mundo latino– cuyos textos, al involucrar condiciones económicas y políticas...

The elephant wants to play on the seesaw, but he is too heavy. How will the other animals solve this problem? This book teaches about opposites as well as weights and measures.

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...