Rapsodia valleinclaniana: escritura narrativa y escritura teatral

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 short stories writer of and a poet; and her sister, Dulce Maria Borrero, excelled at poetry and prose. Therefore, Juana grew up in an artistic and literary atmosphere, amid literary circles and gatherings attended by other writers like Carlos Pio and Federico Uhrbach, as well as Julian del Casal. While still very young, Juana took painting classes, first with Dolores Desvernine, and later on, in...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.

El presente volumen recoge las ponencias del I encuentro sobre Formas breves del relato que tuvo lugar en Madrid los días 1 y 2 de febrero de 1985 entre los profesores de la Casa de Velázquez y los del Departamento de Literatura Española de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Aparte de dos trabajos sobre Alejo Carpentier y Jorge Luis Borges, muestra de la actual vitalidad del relato en Hispanoamérica, el grueso del volumen va dedicado a la Literatura Española. Además de los aspectos formales a que el enunciado apela, no faltan otros en los que se plantean problemas de denominación,...

Juan's father, a fisherman, is caught in a storm and returns very ill. Guided by his friend, the Moon, Juan takes a magical trip to the bottom of the sea and recaptures his father's health from an ornery octopus.