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In 1690, when Infortunios de Alonso Ram?rez, penned by Carlos de Sig?enza y G?ngora (1645-1700), was published in Mexico, Spain already seemed to be slipping irrevocably into decadence. At the same...

Jovel, serenata a la gente menuda is an essential novel in the literary canon of Chiapas, Mexico; not only for belonging to the historic novel genre, but also by bringing out important identity...

The compilation "La Habana Elegante. Segunda epoca. XV Anniversary (1998-2012). Julian del Casal (In Memoriam)" produced by prof. Francisco Moran offers a wide selection of memories, testimonies, and...

"Julio Cortazar y el hombre nuevo" is a critical interpretation that spans the whole works of Julio Cortazar. Avoiding simplifications or anecdotic trivia the author has carefully reviewed the...

Emilio Rabasa (1856-1930), lawyer, historian, literary critic, essayist and novelist, besides being a journalist and active participant in politics, stands out among the Mexican intellectuals of the...

Echeverria's classic poem La cautiva in a new, annotated edition Though critisized by the Martin Fierro supporting authors such as Leopoldo Lugones as a romantisized vision of the Pampa, Echeverria's...

There are reasons to believe that Camilo Jose Cela knew perfectly well what he was doing as he wrote, between 1945 and 1950, La colmena , a novel that would counterweight the positive image the...

In the second part of his work Great Voyages (1591) the engraver, printer and publisher Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) evokes the adventures of a French Calvinist group that commanded by captain Jean...

In this revised 2nd edition, Dr. Flor Mar?a Rodr?guez-Arenas establishes Miguel Riofr?o's race and birth date, through presenting the facsimile of his Certificate of Baptism, thus correcting the...

Because of her social and literary avant-garde activities during the first thirty years of the twentieth century, Graziella Garbalosa (La Habana, 1896-1977) -actress, singer, prolific poet and...

First published in 1884 "La gran aldea" is the author's attept at exposing and synthesizing the transformation process undertaken by Buenos Aires and its inhabitants during the thirty years that...

La hija del bandido o los subterraneos del Nevado (1887) is Refugio de Barragan de Toscano's second novel. Full of adventure and intrigue this romantic text follows Mar?a as she tries to undo her...

One of the best travel books emerged from an Argentine pen is "Travels in Europe, Africa and North America" ​​1845/1847 "by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. At the time of leaving for Europe,...

In La mosca soldado (2004) Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (Santo Domingo, 1936 - ), one of the most prolific and well known current Dominican authors, conveys in a highly poetic language his fascination...

During the nineteenth century in Ecuador, writers produced novels that contributed to literary movements and schools of thought within Spanish-American literature. Pl?cido (1871) by Francisco Campos...

Juana Borrero (1877 - 1896) - Modernist poet, born in Puentes Grandes, Havana, Cuba. She also excelled in painting. As a poet, she was considered a precocious girl. Her father, Esteban Borrero, was a...

"La Quijotita y su prima" (1818) -The Quijotita and her Cousin- is Joaqu?n Fernandez de Lizardi's (1776-1827) second novel. Written two years after his best known novel "Periquillo sarniento" (1816),...

While Carmen de Burgos (Almer?a 1867-Madrid 1932) belonged to the Generation of '98 in terms of her age, she is really too modern and progressive a figure for this categorization. A journalist,...

Aurora C?ceres' compelling novel "La rosa muerta" was set in Paris where it was published in 1914. In a work sharing formal characteristics with modernista prose, C?ceres challenged the ideological...

La tierra natal is a journey into the past, and also a farewell. Since 1831, when forced to follow her father into exile in Bolivia, Juana Manuela Gorriti had not returned to Salta; though there are...

Mariano Jos? de Larra (1809-1837) was the most critical literary voice of the first third of the Spanish nineteenth century. Whether directed against censorship, the police and the Inquisition, or...

La venus mec?nica is one of the most important Spanish novels of the first half of the XXth Century. Written in 1929 it constitutes a key workpiece of the generation that led the largest social and...

Since its publication in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes has continued to fascinate and confuse its readers: is it an autobiography or the product of a creative mind, thus, a work of fiction? Is the author...

Acclaimed by the initiated, Felisberto Hernandez has long been considered a writer's writer, more admired by his colleagues than known by the public at large (Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Yale...

Alvaro Retana (1890-1970), who many consider The Spanish Petronius, belongs to that lighthearted erotic literature trend popular during the early twentieth Century, that became known in Spain as...

Between wars (1918-1939) Benjamin Jarnes (1888-1949) was considered among the most appreciated Spanish writers, and his novels were distinguished by the European critiques of the time. "Locura y...

The '90s have proved a frustrating experience for Latin America. More so to those who consider Liberalism to be the fairest political system. After a seemingly positive start, a series of unclear...

Uniquely precocious within the Hispanic fiction -published when author Ana Maria Matute was 22 years old- Los Abel reached the finals of the 1947 Nadal prize. It was positively received, due both to...

Los amores de Hortensia, that initiates the cycle of novels by Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909), owes some of its characters' attributes of extreme sensibility, beauty and intelligence to...

First published as a serial in the newspaper El Paso del Norte, in October and November of 1915, then as a book published by the same newspaper, the novel Los de abajo has been translated into all...