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Las armas secretas (translates to The Secret Weapons in English) is a book of five short stories written by Julio Cortázar.The latter four stories appear in translation in the volume Blow-up and Other Stories (alternatively titled The End of the Game and Other Stories); the first story, "Cartas de Mamá," was published by Sublunary Editions as a stand-alone paperback in English translation by ...
The novel is set in Madrid in 1943, after the end of the Spanish Civil War, and deals with the poverty and general unhappiness found in Spain by examining a multitude of fictional characters in varying levels of detail. It is notable in that it contains over 300 characters and is considered to be the most important novel written in post–civil ...
[2] Against this reading, however, one might observe the story's claim that "the history of the sect records no persecutions", which cannot be true if the 'Secret' is homosexual intercourse. Moreover, the name of the sect associates it with the mythological Phoenix , suggesting regeneration and renewal of life: the more obvious analogy ...
In serious Spanish studies about bandolerismo and social disorders (very frequent in Andalusia in the 19th century), there is not a single mention of the Garduña. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] According to historian John Dickie , the Garduña was a fictional organisation that appeared from nowhere in a very popular French pulp novel published in 1845.
For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.
E. B. White's Charlotte's Web was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal the year Secret of the Andes won the award. [4] According to a 2008 article by children's literature expert Anita Silvey in the School Library Journal, one member of the Newbery committee stated that she voted for Secret of the Andes rather than Charlotte's Web "because she hadn't seen any good books about South America."
It's a classic tale: You have last-minute guests coming over for dinner or a bake sale fundraiser you didn't find out about until the night before—and now you need to concoct some tasty treats ...
"The Book of Sand" (Spanish: El libro de arena) is a 1975 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges about the discovery of a book with infinite pages. It has parallels to the same author's 1949 story " The Zahir " (revised in 1974), continuing the theme of self-reference and attempting to abandon the terribly infinite, and to his 1941 ...