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A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...

Colombia produced one of the richest literatures of Latin America, as much for its abundance as for its variety and innovation during the 19th century. This value has been unknown due to subsequent writers and critics that rejected the importance of this literature and influenced readers to ignore this literary production as noteworthy. In the same way, this lack of recognition has been perpetuated by the absence of information of the literary works produced during the 19th century and has hampered the investigation and research of new generations of readers. Therefore, this Bibliography of...

El libro más leído de György Lukács es su Teoría de la novela (1920), a pesar de que Lukács lo condenó por ser anterior a su conversión al marxismo. En 1934 preparó los documentos contenidos en este volumen como una réplica marxista al libro de 1920, de orientación hegeliana. El presente volumen contiene su ensayo sobre teoría de la novela, escrito para la Enciclopedia literaria soviética, una ponencia de síntesis de este ensayo y el debate que tuvo lugar en el Instituto Marx-Engels de Moscú. Los tres documentos constituyen el punto de partida para una filosofía de la novela,...

This book analyzes the theoretical aspects of specific humoristic techniques in Gabriel Garcia Marquez. These techniques employ ranges from the use of explicit jokes, hyperbole or textual and cultural carnival, and literary resources such as irony, parody and ambiguity.