El sujeto en crisis en la narrativa de Fernando Cruz Kronfly

Author and Professor Dr. Pablo Valdivia analyzes the contradictions and complexities of the Spanish traditional canon from a transnational approach. Valdivia explores this particular canon as a 'haunted house' by focusing on the specific dialectics of presence, absence and (in)visibilization offered in relevant case studies: Jose Ricardo Morales, Cervantes or Jesus Carrasco, among others. Under the new term of 'disinherited literature', Valdivia advocates for coining critical categories that enrich the study of Spanish texts and shed new light on their radical specificities far from biased...

This book contains essays in Spanish and English. The essays in this collection are distinctive in their critical approach to a wide variety of topics. Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela and Chile are represented by some of their major literary figures in poetry (Valencia, Mistral, Neruda, Torres Bodet) or prose fiction (Asturias, Gallegos, Garcia Marquez). The four concluding studies on Von Humboldt, La Condamine, Gerstacker and Zweig are valuable in that they present historical, political, sociological, geographical and/or scientific concerns in a cross-cultural context."

La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre (1964), basada en la histórica antiepopeya de la expedición capitoneada porun vasco a lo largo del Amazonas, ofrece un amplio y variado espectro de caracteres a la búsqueda de un imposible. Elmítico El Dorado se convierte en el centro vital de unas mentes estremecidas y agitadas que luchan contra sí mismas y contra el universo,plas- mado en una tierra indomable, la selva del Marañón, y enunos monarcas lejanos que recuerdan al dios del abandono. Un discurso exuberante, pleno de matices, ayuda a recrear la atmósfera sobrehumana de la tarumbo...

Translated from the Latin. The original Latin versions were published in 1997 under the title: Chronica Hispana saeculi XIII (Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis; 73).