Dime si en la cordillera sopla el viento

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, cronista de la vida cotidiana de Barcelona. Manuel Vázquez Montalbán fue uno de los columnistas más influyentes de la segunda mitad del siglo XX español, Crónicas de Barcelona recoge tres crónicas periodísticas de su primera época, tres descripciones de tres clases sociales que marcaron una época: la alta burguesía franquista (1961), la clase popular (1961) y esa burguesía juvenil conocida como La Gauche Divine que protagonizó un nuevo movimiento cultural. Una sociedad que adquiere una luz muy particular bajo la pluma crítica de Vázquez Montalbán.

Angelina's annoyance at having to take her little cousin Henry to the fair turns into friendship after a day filled with adventures and surprises.

Seeking to understand the economic relations between author and publisher, this study analyzes the place of Roberto Bolaño in the Latin American literary canon through the texts of Jorge Herralde. After showing how the work of the 1998 Premio Herralde winner has been commodified, Lèal offers a critical reading of the writer figure, as represented in three key moments of Bolaño’s short story production.

Presenting the work of Miguel de Unamuno and Albert Camus as paradigmatic, the present study examines the significance and function of the -tragic- in a modern context, using a historical, socio-political approach. This approach permits the tragic to be seen as a product of specific historical circumstances, rather than as a fundamental, metaphysical aspect of the human condition, first revealed in Greek Tragedy and still evident today. In addition, a connection is made between Unamuno's and Camus's controversial political positions taken at the end of their lives and their insistence upon a...