Tom Wolfe

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...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.

Depuis longtemps - depuis toujours ? - Jacques Chancel observe et confesse la plupart de ses contemporains. Du plus illustre au plus humble. De l'écrivain au sportif. De la star éphémère aux héros du siècle. Des rois aux rebelles. Tous, un jour ou l'autre, se sont retrouvés devant lui. Et grâce à Jacques Chancel, c'est un peu de la mémoire de notre temps qui - de {Radioscopie} au {Grand échiquier} - s'est mystérieusement élaborée. Témoin attentif, il s'est nourri d'autrui, il a fait son miel de leurs confidences, de leurs destins. Guetteur passionné, il rend hommage à la vie, ...

"The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, âAngeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays"--Provided by publisher.