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The Stories of Eva Luna (Spanish: Cuentos de Eva Luna) is a collection of Spanish-language short stories by the Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende.It consists of stories told by the title character of Allende's earlier novel Eva Luna.
Obras completas (y otros cuentos), 1959. Complete Works (and Other Stories) La oveja negra y demás fábulas, 1969. The Black Sheep and Other Fables, trans. Walter I. Bradbury (Doubleday, 1971) [7] The Black Sheep and Other Fables, trans. Rupert Glasgow and Philip Jenkins (Tadworth: Acorn, 2005. ISBN 978-0954495954) Movimiento perpetuo, 1972.
Los Mayos, 1885. Polo's first literary work, Realidad poética de mis montañas, appeared in 1873. [25] Except that it was a collection of short stories [26] instead of a novel, it revealed characteristics marking his later works: traditional themes, a simple plot and clear educational purpose, with narration set in the provincial milieu of Sierra de Albarracín, painted with attention to ...
The Juan Bobo tales originally migrated from Spain in an oral tradition influenced by the Spanish picaresque novels (Lazarillo de Tormes; Don Quijote) and Wise Fool tales. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Published anonymously in 1554, El Lazarillo de Tormes is often viewed as the first modern novel, and “picaresque” became the first genre – a genre of ...
In 1979 she won the Premio Sésamo for her work El bandido doblemente armado, the Premio Planeta in 1989 for Queda la noche, and the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo in 1993 with La vida oculta. Puértolas was elected to Seat g of the Real Academia Española on 28 January 2010, she took up her seat on 21 November the same year. [ 3 ]
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an emphasis on humour and parody. [1]
This production is relegated to propaganda forming part of the Francoist grip on culture in Spain of the 1940s, [96] “intachables desde el punto de vista de la moralidad de sus escritos” and “guardiana de los valores tradicionales consagrados por la naciente España franquista”, [97] at times referred to a “subliteratura” or ...
The story begins with the first-person account of Juan Preciado, who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will return to Comala to meet his father, Pedro Páramo. His narration is interspersed with fragments of third-person dialogue from the life of Pedro Páramo, who lived in a time when Comala was a robust, living town, instead of the ghost town Juan now sees.