Colloquial Spanish

"Nextext Spanish readers offer short stories, poems, plays, and essays by prominent writers of Spain and Latin America presented entirely in Spanish. These collections are ideal for a variety of upper-level courses, particularly advanced placement Spanish literature."--Back covers.

The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and LEsquella de la Torratxa,among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and...

De la pampa argentine au sommet des Andes, du Mexique secoué par le tremblement de terre, au typique village castillan... Une humanité vaste et multiple dont le point commun est la langue : l'espagnol, qui relie ces hommes et leurs mondes. Ici, le petit gitan chétif côtoie le noir pêcheur de crabes des îles, l'aile du condor venge l'Indien humilié et le son alterné des tambours amenés par les esclaves de Guinée rythme la folle danse de la Saint-Jean, près de la côte caraïbe. Humour, émotion et ancienne sagesse en treize nouvelles.

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