Contemporary Spanish Short Stories: Viajeros Perdidos - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 185399460X ISBN 13 : 9781853994609

Editeur : Bristol Classical Press, 1998

Synopsis

A collection of short stories by 12 contemporary Spanish writers including Javier Cercas and Paloma Diaz-Mas. The settings vary from the exotic (Salome at the court of King Herod, the palace of a Moorish king with a half-mermaid daughter) to the historical (a little boy's experience of life in rural Spain under Franco), the fantastic (travelling the world through a labyrinth of built-in wardrobes) and the Chandleresque "film noir". Each of the stories follows a traveller or travellers, who, in the course of the tale, become lost to reality in some way, or alienated from their expectations and ideals. Sometimes these escapes are temporary, and the protagonist has to return to the everyday world. Sometimes they are permanent. Sometimes the travel is geographical as well as mental. In each case these fugues are metaphors; for contemporary Spanish life in some instances, for the whole of modern experience in others.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jean
Andrews lectures in Spanish Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, London.
Montserrat Lunati lectures in Hispanic Studies at the School of European
Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bristol Classical Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 185399460X
• ISBN 13: 9781853994609
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124
• Éditeur: Andrews Jean, Lunati Monserrat
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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