Mi destino

"Peter Pan" is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age."--Mark Twain.

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

Une langue est un discours. La langue du jeu de cartes et, plus encore, le jeu de cartes comme discours. En Espagne, parce que c'est un pays où la pratique du jeu semble avoir engendrer, plus qu'ailleurs, un discours spécifique qui affleure de façon quasiment généralisée - et parfois inattendue - dans la métaphore. Et du XVIe au XVIIe siècle, parce que c'est pendant cette période que la spécificité de ce discours et l'usage de la métaphore cartière sont le plus remarquables. Cinq études et une introduction. Une longue introduction pour rapporter et expliquer le légendaire des...

This critical edition of the novel Sab (published in 1840 in Madrid) is based on the Cuban printing of the 1970s. It is of particular interest not only because of its aesthetic qualities but also because it addresses issues of interest both for the period in which it was written and contemporary audiences. Among these topics are slavery, basic rights of the individual in society, nationalism, and women's issues.