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"Al gran oso le gustaría jugar en el paeque. Pero no con los niños. Quiere todo para él solo: columpio, laberinto, todo. Y como en mucho más fuerte que los niños, puede naturalmente, impedirles jugar. Sin embargo, cuando está sentado en el balancín, necesita a alguien en el otro extremo" -- Page 4 of cover.

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...

Recorrido analítico por la definición, las cualidades, los rasgos y las señales de la poesía, auxiliado por una eficaz meditación filosófica y un repaso fortuito y puntual de las expresiones líricas italiana, francesa, alemana, española, inglesa, norteamericana e hispanoamericana.

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...