Guzmán de Alfarache y la novela moderna

Una rigurosa investigación sobre la agrupación religiosa más importante y poderosa en nuestro país

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

Durante el siglo XIX el cuento comienza a adquirir categoría de género literario en el ámbito de las letras españolas. Las primeras reflexiones de carácter crítico y teórico sobre el cuento literario lo distancian del cuento folclórico o tradicional y tratan de establecer algunas características distintivas, como la fijación escritural, el interés por cuidar el lenguaje literario y la apertura del género a la temática realista. Después de la guerra civil, se retoma el cultivo del cuento literario en España, cuyo momento de más auge había tenido lugar a principios del siglo...