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"No es posible ser sabio, estoico ni coherente las veinticuatro horas del día; es necesario saborear el placer de vivir sin la seriedad profunda de los compromisos laborales, las prácticas religiosas políticas y cívicas de la cotidianidad ¿Por qué no ser demasiado humanos para el disfrute de la vida, mirando a los ojos de mi interlocutor cuando hace memoria del pasado, o cuando saboreamos el presente El autor de Relatos Carnavalescos lleva al lector al pasado, le dice lo que se contaba en épocas de las espelmas, las velas de cebo o las lámparas de petróleo; cuando entre la cena y la...

Who writes "I"? How is the scene of writing represented in autobiographical texts? To whom are autobiographies addressed? What kinds of readers are inscribed in autobiographical narratives? In Apology to Apostrophe, James D. Fernandez offers a lucid and powerful meditation on the nature of autobiographical writing through his investigation of the historical conditions and literary stagings of autobiographical writing in Spain. As Fernandez demonstrates, recent developments in critical theory provide new and fruitful approaches to autobiographical works that have long been neglected,...

"As much as in other countries, there is a bildungsroman novel in Spanish America like the ones of Güiraldes, Vargas Llosa, and Pacheco. However, less studied is the same genre of novel written by women. Examines growing pains and search for freedom in a patriarchal society in the works of Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Claribel Alegría, Rosario Ferré, and Beatriz Guido. Interesting contribution to the growing body of studies on these writers"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

In Las hojas que caen tells her own childhood story: that of a Chinese girl who suffers the abandonment of her stepmother and even her own family. Her determination to survive enables her to overcome experiences in her life which would have destroyed any human being.