Colindancias is the result of a collaborative effort between professors of Spanish language and literature from Central European universities, who created the Regional Network of Hispanists from Hungary, Romania and Serbia in 2009. A year later, they found an official platform thanks to the CEEPUS program. Since then, the network has expanded to include eleven countries and adopted the name Red de Hispanistas de Europa Central. The main objective of the journal is to disseminate the scientific work of researchers-teachers from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and to integrate their research into the international circuit. The journal publishes research papers written in Spanish in this part of Europe, as well as articles written by authors from other countries. The topics addressed are related to various fields of Hispanic studies, including literature, linguistics, didactics, history, etc. Works that have a comparative approach or that are capable of highlighting the relationships between the Hispanic space and that of Central and Eastern Europe are of special interest. Over the years, the journal has added new sections, allowing for the inclusion of interviews with prominent Hispanic personalities related to Central Europe in some way or another, as well as reviews of recent editorial appearances in the field of research in Spanish. The journal is published annually. The journal is published by West University of Timișoara Publishing House and receives occasional support from the Spanish Embassy and the Via Romania Cultura association.
Fictional Worlds and Spaces of Escape and Evocation in Projects of the Past by Ana Blandiana and The Lemon House by Corina Oproae
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Victor Ivanovici. De la teoría a la poética de la traducción. Puebla: DGP - Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2022, 336 pp.
Lectura inspiradora la del ensayo De la teoría a la poética de la traducción, firmado por Victor Ivanovici y publicado por la Dirección General de Publicaciones de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla en 2022. Es un libro que nos invita a revisitar los clásicos de la traductología para mejor valorar la posibilidad de traducir, así como elaborar nuevas pistas metodológicas. La propuesta del autor —lógica en su construcción y hasta obvia— no deja de ser singular: aquí deconstruir no pretende romper abruptamente con todo lo anterior sino proceder a un desmontaje fino, de relojero, para armar nuevos mecanismos con la mayor precisión posible. De lo que se trata es cuestionar las herramientas “traductivas” tal y como están y se articulan para volver a sintonizar teoría y práctica/poética y, de esta forma, (re)conciliarlas.
Silvia-Alexandra Ștefan. Fernando de Herrera: Tomás Moro / Thomas Morus. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărții de Știință, 2023, 226 pp.
El volumen Fernando de Herrera: Tomás Moro / Thomas Morus representa una edición crítica bilingüe de la biografía del intelectual inglés Tomás Moro, escrita por el humanista Fernando de Herrera. Se trata de una edición crítica rigurosa, con investigación filológica y contextual basada en estudios recientes, que rescata una obra menor, pero significativa en su valor intelectual-político, otorgándole vigencia moderna. La edición es firmada por la hispanista Silvia-Alexandra Ștefan, profesora contratada en la Universidad de Bucarest y doctora en literatura hispánica, autora de varios trabajos clave sobre la vida y obra del sevillano Fernando de Herrera, incluido el volumen Imitatio în poetica lui Fernando de Herrera (1534-1597). Por tanto, debido a su formación previa, la editora está sólidamente posicionada para ofrecer una lectura rigurosa y bien informada de su obra.
Antonio de Padua Andino Sánchez. La huella de los autores grecolatinos en el «Quijote». Guía de referencias clásicas de la obra universal de Cervantes. Colección Pontes Philologici. Timișoara: Editura Universității de Vest din Timișoara, 2023, 315 pp.
Cervantes es un nombre imprescindible en la constelación de escritores europeos. La bibliografía dedicada a la obra de Cervantes y, particularmente, a la novela Don Quijote, opus majus del insigne autor de Alcalá de Henares, supera en extensión cualquier otro corpus bibliográfico centrado en la investigación de la creación literaria de cualquier escritor español. No obstante el inmenso número de trabajos especializados dedicados a Don Quijote, las fuentes grecolatinas de este “libro de libros” no habían sido consideradas, hasta ahora, con la debida atención ni habían sido objeto de un estudio riguroso que se propusiera clasificar y aclarar el peso que las obras de los autores clásicos tienen en la estructura de la novela. Una labor que ha sido llevada a cabo con brillantez por Antonio de Padua Andino Sánchez, en su libro titulado La huella de los autores grecolatinos en el «Quijote». Guía de referencias clásicas de la obra universal de Cervantes, publicado en la colección Pontes Philologici por la Editorial de la Universidad del Oeste de Timișoara en 2023. Esta “guía”, como la denomina Antonio de Padua Andino Sánchez, representa una versión actualizada de su tesis doctoral titulada Las fuentes grecolatinas en el Quijote, elaborada en el marco del Programa de Doctorado “La tradición clásica en el campo de la religiosidad y el mito”.
Comparison of Mechanisms of Conversational Reformulation in Fluent and Non-Fluent Aphasia
In the foreign language classroom, intercultural communicative competence is a means of communication and socialization, enabling learners to establish a relationship between a foreign and their own culture as well as to mediate between them whereby foreign language coursebooks play a key role. In teaching Spanish as a foreign language, this poses a particular challenge because of the considerable heterogeneity and cultural richness of Spanish-speaking countries, as well as the diversity of Spanish language varieties. The aim of our paper is to propose analysis criteria which would enable the presence, characteristics and ways of representation of selected types of cultural content in a coursebook to be determined, applied to a coursebook aimed at adolescent learners. The results indicate that intercultural communicative competence is highly present and embedded throughout the analyzed coursebook reinforcing the strong relationship between language and culture, and that the cultural diversity of the Hispanic world is represented. However, areas for potential improvement have been observed, such as reducing the dominance of cultural references, maintaining a better balance between the skills developed in the activities containing cultural elements, and promoting greater awareness of learners’ own culture.
Cultural Contents in Spanish as a Foreign Language Coursebooks for Adolescents: Proposal of Analysis Criteria
A Review of Key Research on Error Analysis Related to the Use of the Article in the Interlanguage of Spanish L2 Students Who Speak Slavic and Baltic Languages (1991-2025)
The aim of this study is to systematically review research on error analysis related to the use of articles in written texts produced by SL students of Spanish whose first languages are Slavic and Baltic (which lack this grammatical category), published between 1991 and 2025. The review is based on the description of the methodology and error taxonomy, as well as the corpus and the profile of the participants, with the objectives of (1) determining whether any common trends exist, identifying the types of errors and the uses and contexts in which they occur, and (2) assessing the suitability of the analytical methodologies employed in the studies. The results indicate that, in most corpora, the definite article poses greater difficulty than the indefinite article, and omission is the most frequent error; however, further analysis of the increase in addition errors from level B onward would be advisable. Finally, the need to standardize methodology in future research to allow for reliable comparisons is confirmed.
Interlinguistic and Translemic Equivalence of Inchoative Verbal Periphrases. A Contrastive Analysis Spanish-Romanian
This article investigates Spanish verbal periphrases and their Romanian equivalence based on a translation-oriented corpus. In addition to examining the resources employed by the Romanian language, the analysis aims to revisit the concept of ‘verbal periphrase’ and to identify the status of such constructions in contemporary Romanian. It is revealed that, from a semantic and morphosyntactic view, in Spanish, periphrastic constructions (auxiliary + main verb) function as predicates. Romanian, however, expresses the inchoative aspect using various lexico-semantic mechanisms, which syntactically form compound verbal predicates: aspectual-inchoative verb (a începe ‘begin’, a se apuca ‘begin’ etc.) + subordinate verb. Also, forms from the verbal paradigm (imperfect, future, subjunctive) may also be used. These partial equivalences lead to undertranslation due to the loss of aspectual, temporal and stylistic nuances.
Pragmatic and Emotional Perspective in the Short Story “La mano de la niña” by Mercedes Formica: Linguistic Tools for Teaching Affective Expression in Spanish as a Foreign Language (B2)
This article addresses the socio-emotional component in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) at upper-intermediate levels (B2), based on a classroom practice carried out with 12 students. It is grounded in the premise that understanding and expressing emotions are key to developing students’ communicative competence and ethical awareness. To this end, the short story “La mano de la niña” by Mercedes Formica is proposed as a teaching resource to work on the affective and reflective dimension, with particular attention to emotional vocabulary and the linguistic strategies used to convey feelings. Following the classroom work with the text, students’ oral and written productions demonstrated how they express judgments, emotions, and evaluations using structures appropriate to the B2 level. The results suggest that the use of literary texts enhances both comprehension and language production while fostering empathy, critical reflection, and social awareness regarding situations of injustice and inequality. This experience shows that integrating a socio-emotional approach in Spanish language teaching contributes to more meaningful learning and to the development of interpersonal skills and ethical values essential in multilingual and multicultural contexts.
“Traditional” Translation Versus Automatic Translation: Use of Semicolon in Spanish and Serbian
In this paper, we highlight the significance of punctuation marks within the framework of contrastive analysis, particularly the use of semicolon. We examine the basic uses of this punctuation mark in Spanish and Serbian on the example of the translation of the novel Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós, comparing two versions of the translation: human translation and an automatic translation produced by GPT. Considering that authors often deviate from spelling norms, we selected an author and his novel where such tendencies are not present. Benito Pérez Galdós is a representative of 19th-century Spanish realism, and his novel Doña Perfecta is characterized as a realistic novel. The conclusions regarding the similarities and differences in the use of this punctuation mark will serve as one of the guidelines for determining the behaviour of GPT translations when using this particular punctuation mark.
Heritage and Innovation in the Diminutives of the Adverbs of Manner in American Spanish
This article aims to study the diminutive forms of the adverbs of manner in the Spanish varieties spoken in Latin America. The diminutive is an identifying feature of American Spanish, even in grammatical categories such as the adverb. In European Spanish it is less commonly used in this category. The starting point is the hypothesis that the most used suffix is –ito/-ita, but we are interested in investigating whether there are other suffixes that are used to derive them. We shall focus on the forms which American Spanish inherited from European Spanish and, at the same time, on the innovations, that is, on the forms created by American Spanish. We used El Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH) to identify when these words were documented. Likewise, we consulted the CREA, annotated CREA, CORDE, CORPES XXI and CORDIAM corpora and the Diccionario de americanismos to investigate whether these are forms of widespread, general and continuous use in all Spanishspeaking countries or whether their use is limited to certain areas. Only adverbial cases were selected and analyzed, because some words are also used as adjectives.
Crisis, Nahualism and Resistance in Miguel Ángel Asturias’ Men of Maize
This article analyzes Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias from a critical-literary and cultural perspective, with the aim of examining the articulation between crisis, Indigenous resistance, and nahualism in the face of the imposition of the capitalist model on Indigenous communities. Through a textual and interpretive analysis, supported by critical approaches to colonial legacies and studies on Mesoamerican Indigenous worldviews, the article argues that nahualism functions in the novel not only as a mythical motif but also as a narrative strategy of symbolic resistance that reaffirms a sacred relationship with nature and challenges the logic of natural resource exploitation. The study focuses on the literary construction of figures such as Gaspar Ilóm and other nahual characters, as well as on formal devices—polyphony, fragmentation, and symbolism—through which Asturias shapes a poetics of resistance. The originality of this proposal lies in considering nahualism as an organizing axis that links narrative form, Indigenous worldview, and a critique of capitalism, rather than as a mere folkloric or magical element, thus allowing the novel to be reread as a site of epistemological confrontation between modernity and Indigenous thought.
The Myth of Orpheus as a Space of Aesthetic Dispute in Juan de Jáuregui: Imitation, Dialogue, and Critique of Gongorism
This article examines the aesthetic and polemical relationship between Juan de Jáuregui and Luis de Góngora. Scholars argue that Orfeo (1624) does not represent a submission to the Gongorine model, but rather a critical response that transforms its procedures from within a classicist poetics. Although it shares with Góngora certain formal traits, Jáuregui moderates and rationalizes them, subordinating artifice to the principles of clarity and harmony. The myth of Orpheus allows the author to develop a reflection on the cathartic power of art and on the poet’s role as mediator between nature and divinity. Orpheus, as a symbol of ordering music and moral beauty, embodies the ideal of the poet that Jáuregui opposes to Góngora’s verbal experimentalism and deliberate obscurity. In this sense, the poem integrates a sumptuous and musical lexicon that, far from being mere ornament, acquires a symbolic and ethical function. Thus, Jáuregui’s Orfeo stands as an example of Baroque aemulatio: Jáuregui does not imitate Góngora, but rather engages in a dialogue with him to construct his own poetics, in which inspiration and discipline converge in a harmonious and rational vision of art.
In our study, we start from the idea that both Ana Blandiana and Corina Oproae narrate, through fantastic, realistic, or combined procedures, emotions and experiences of Romanian communism—perceived contextually and subjectively, but analogous in terms of drama and depth—from which spaces of evasion and evocation are generated. Our approach is based on the theory of fictional worlds and focuses on analyzing in parallel this alternation of personal and collective stories, embedded in specific episodes of the communist dictatorship in Romania. The analysis of the fragments examined aims to classify the fictional worlds present in the books Proyectos de pasado by Ana Blandiana and La casa limón by Corina Oproae within current narrative trends, including autofiction, with its characteristics and values. In addition, the interstices or portals of transition that determine a spiritual and regenerative rethinking of the fictional worlds present in these texts will be highlighted.
The Configuration of the Gothic and Feminist Agency in Cometierra by Dolores Reyes
This paper aims to explore how Gothic elements and feminist agency are articulated in Cometierra (2019) by the Argentine author Dolores Reyes. We argue that the Gothic framework in the novel functions as a tool to illuminate crimes such as femicide and gender-based violence, while simultaneously critiquing the role of state structures in sustaining the status quo around such violence. The material reality of the Buenos Aires suburbs serves as a foundation for constructing a Gothic atmosphere in which the consequences of unbridled capitalism and systemic violence are laid bare. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s theories on the cultural politics of emotion, we demonstrate that, through vulnerability, heightened empathy, and affective engagement, Cometierra is constructed as a feminist subject who destabilizes the patriarchal order and forges both feminist and communal bonds.
Arms, Letters, Love: The Novels of Nicolás Casullo and Francisco Urondo in the Early Seventies
In this article I propose a cross-reading of two novels that recount and problematize the initiation into the amorous, intellectual, and political life of 1970s Argentina: Para hacer el amor en los parques (To Make Love in the Parks) by Nicolás Casullo and Los pasos previos (The Preliminary Steps) by Francisco Urondo. The hypothesis I maintain is that both texts, read autobiographically as fragments of their authors’ life trajectories, but also as epitomes of an era and a generation, uniquely and presciently expose the intertwining of violence, affectivity, sexuality, and commitment that developed during this historical and political period in question, no longer from the perspective of pure chronicle or documentary, but rather at the intersection of literary experimentation and testimonial record.
How to Translate a Survivor of the Nazi Extermination Camps from Cuba in 1977? Tadeusz Borowski (and Ana Ros), Between Socialist Realism in Poland and testimonio revolucionario in Cuba
Tadeusz Borowski was one of the first writers in the world to produce a literary work about the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. From his problematic situation as a non-Jewish prisoner survivor, employed as forced labor in the industrial extermination of Jewish people, Borowski articulated a literary work that focused on the grammatical, idiomatic, and psychological effects of internalizing the totalitarian logic of the concentration camps. The Cuban translation and edition of Borowski’s work in 1977, one of the first and most comprehensive in Spanish, has been described as “very deficient” (Freixa 2009: 76). In what sense can Ana Ros’s translation of “Por favor, pasen a la cámara de gas” be considered “very deficient”? What translation strategies did she employ? How did the Polish and Cuban ideological climate of the 1970s influence Ana Ros’s “deficient” translation? We propose to analyze how socialist realism in Poland and revolutionary testimony in Cuba became an obstacle to understanding Borowski’s powerful story, emphasizing the questionable translation of the founding Cuban edition into Spanish, the work of the forgotten Polish translator Ana Ros.
Emilio J. Gallardo-Saborido, Urša Geršak, Maja Šabec (eds.); Giuseppe Riccardi, Ilinca Ilian (dirs.), Literatura en práctica: Retos profesionales de lectura, traducción y edición en la era digital. Manual y cuaderno de actividades. Liubliana: Editorial de
Due to its fundamental contribution to a better understanding of the current and past historical and sociopolitical context, as well as its ability to shape values ​​and develop critical thinking, the teaching of literature has always been a favorite area for innovative initiatives. It is in this field, that of teaching literature written in Spanish in the 21st century, that the LITPRAX project: "Literature in Praxis: Professional challenges of reading, translating and editing in the digital age" falls, bringing together a team of researchers and teachers from Slovenia, Romania, Serbia, and Spain under the framework of an Erasmus+ program developed between early 2021 and mid-2024.
Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu. Relevancia y traducción. Una retrospectiva con lentes actualizantes. Córdoba: Editorial Comares, 2022, 264 pp.
There has been much talk in recent years about the effervescence of translation studies and, at the same time, about the growing interest that translation research shows in problems and domains that exceed its restricted (and traditional) field, i.e., the critical analysis of the system of equivalences that materialize in the interconnection between source language and target language. Likewise, decades of numerous studies belonging to the latest translation era have come to the epistemological sphere, in which linguistic pragmatics, discourse analysis, cognitivism, and communication theories coincide in their methods and central axioms1, a pioneer of other disciplines that accompany a specific project for literary translation. As is logical, this discipline offers a valuable argumentative foundation to prove the conjunction of complex theories and translation practices.
Gender Role Values in Serbia and Spain: A Contribution to Comparative Gender Sociolinguistic Research
Language and culture are interconnected in such a way that one cannot exist without the other; they cannot exist separately. Since language serves as a symbolic system that expresses culture, comparative research on language inherently involves a comparison of cultures. The aim of this comparative study is to provide insights into recognizing cultural differences between two societies: Serbian society and Spanish society. We will use values that express the distribution of gender roles as an approximation to cultural differences. Using representative data from the European Values Study (EVS) 2018, we will present a comparative analysis of attitudes in these two populations toward gender roles in both public (business, politics) and private (home, child-rearing) spheres. Since both societies are seen as patriarchal, we offer a different interpretation and point out that there has already been a divergence of values. Relatively strict male and female roles, as well as a high appreciation of the heteronormativity of marriage, are still quite present in Serbia while they are significantly questioned in Spain.
Prepositions as a Challenge in Teaching and Learning Spanish by Native Serbian Speakers: the case of por
This paper relies on the fact that learning prepositions presents a significant challenge for Serbian native speakers studying Spanish. The investigation is developed from the methodological principles of contrastive linguistics and its purpose is to undertake a thorough analysis of the preposition por, which seems to be particularly complex, and to draw relevant conclusions for teaching and learning. After examining why prepositions are often a stumbling block in the classroom, as well as the benefits of contrastive analysis and the language awareness approach, syntactic values of the preposition por and its equivalents in Serbian are explained. In the second part of the paper the combinations of prepositions containing por and the equivalent Serbian forms are explored: the analysis is based on a corpus made of four novels. A fundamental distinction with regard to prepositions is the lack of grammatical cases in Spanish versus Serbian; additionally, prepositional combinations are less common in Serbian. In light of this, the introduction of contrastive analysis tasks, through translation, is proposed, because it is reckoned to be valuable for perfecting the linguistic competence of Serbian students
contrastive analysis of the Spanish and Serbian languages
teaching and learning Spanish as a foreign language
Dystopian Imaginaries: The Current Situation of Puerto Rican Women Through the Science Fiction Written by Ana María Fuster Lavín
This article aims to explain briefly some of the reasons for the intermittent evolution of science fiction in Puerto Rico and addresses the causes that lead to the appearance at the beginning of the twenty-first century of narratives of this genre written by women, focusing on the short stories of Ana María Fuster Lavín, who in her collection La marejada de los muertos y otras pandemias (2020) assumes feminist positions with which, in addition to denouncing the inequalities experienced by Puerto Rican women and girls, affirms their importance as subjects in the radical transformation of the dystopian panorama that the island has been experiencing since the fiscal crisis of 2014.
The Multiple Facets of Chile: Memory and Sociopolitical Reflections in La locura de Pinochet by Luis Sepúlveda
La locura de Pinochet (2002), written by Luis Sepúlveda (Chile, 1949 – Spain, 2020), is the starting point of a journey towards the past during which, through memory, the invasive powers at work in the Chilean territory are studied as they progressively led to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. This book, which is a collection of chronicles initially published in the international press, reveals elements of the Chilean reality during and after the dictatorship which transformed the sociopolitical context of the country, having a lasting effect even during the years of the transition to democracy. The aim is to analyse these research axes and their impact on the Chilean territory in geopolitical terms. As a result, historical moments are described which reveal social wounds half a century after the coup d’ Etat on 11th September 1973. Moreover, the unique thought of Luis Sepúlveda will also be examined as he was one of the most emblematic authors of his generation. His literary production as appears in the texts examined raises questions regarding justice and memory, highlighting them as the cornerstone of his work.
Between Memory and Trauma: Post-Memory in Mariana Enriquez’s Short Stories
This article deals with the phenomenon of post-memory related to political and socio-political events in Argentina and its presence in the Argentinian short story. It analyses two texts by the Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez: “La Hostería” (2016) and “Cuando hablábamos con los muertos” (2009). The main theoretical tool is the theory of postmemory created by Marianne Hirsch and presented in other works on this subject, which is introduced in order to apply it in the subsequent analysis of the texts. In addition, for context, it introduces information about the last Argentine military dictatorship, which serves as a historical and political reference in both texts of Mariana Enriquez. Using these tools, it analyses the reality presented in these stories and the postmemory experienced by the protagonists of the texts due to the trauma that is so present in Argentinian society. The aim is to answer the following questions: what influence do the events experienced by their ancestors have on the lives of the protagonists, how is the postmemory presented in both stories and why are elements of the fantastic used to introduce it into the texts? And most importantly, how do political events influence Argentinian culture and society?
The Critique of Neo-Colonialism and the Rethinking of Collective Identity in Papeles de Pandora (1976)
Twentieth-century Puerto Rican literature was concerned with defining national identity in a historical context marked by the transfer of power between Spain and the United States. In response to attempts at foreign cultural assimilation, writers in the first half of the 20th century tried to delimit the constituent elements of the Puerto Rican national imaginary. However, the second half of the century saw the development of a literature that highlighted the shortcomings of the definition of Puerto Rico that had been proposed by previous generations. Among the voices that called for a change in Puerto Rican literature was Rosario Ferré. This research focuses on eleven of the stories that form part of her first work, Papeles de Pandora (1976), with the aim of analysing the similarities and differences established around the colonial question and the definition of collective identity that had been theorised by the representatives of cultural nationalism in the first half of the 20th century.
An Embodied Cartography: Spaces of Power and Female Border Transgressions in Nadie me verá llorar by Cristina Rivera Garza
This study analyzes the spaces traversed by Matilda Burgos, the protagonist of Nadie me verá llorar (1999) by Cristina Rivera Garza, to explore the power relations between these spaces and the female body of the protagonist. First, domestic spaces, characterized by a univocal power, are examined, where attempts are made to monitor and control the body through discourses and knowledge that reinforce subjection. Then, Foucaultian “heterotopic spaces” such as the brothel and the asylum are analyzed, where marginal and transgressive voices converge, allowing for the expression of alternative and subversive power dynamics. Throughout the study, the relationship between the female body and spaces is explored, showing how the protagonist is not only in these places, but also reconfigures them, tracing her own cartography based on her bodily experience. In this sense, the body becomes a space of resistance that challenges the official cartography and emerges as a means to subvert hegemonic discourses. The research thus aims to highlight how the female body can be an agent of resistance against the impositions of power, drawing new routes and resignifying the places where the body moves and acts.
The Motif of Prison in Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig and Reality by Sergio Bizzio
This article analyzes Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976) and Sergio Bizzio’s Reality (2009), linking both works through the motif of prison. Both Argentinian novels allow us to address different aspects of imprisonment, as Puig’s work is based on a real prison and the dictatorship, while in Bizzio’s world the starting point is a reality show and a terrorist attack. The role of fiction and reality (moreover, the blurring of the boundaries between the two) has a strongly marked presence in both novels: in Puig’s work fiction (the narrative of the films) provides a refuge for the prisoners, while in Bizzio’s the fictional reality of the reality show is the prison itself, from which it is impossible to escape. The analysis is going to focus on the different narrative solutions representing confinement used by the two authors (taking into consideration the role of the cinema in the narrative), and also highlight the difference between the objective of confinement in Kiss of the Spider Woman and in Reality (to exclude or exhibit the prisoners/characters).
Who Has Left Me the Dictatorship as an Inheritance? A Review of Confusing Genealogies in literatura de los hijos of the Southern Cone
The focus of this article will be put on literatura de los hijos [literature of sons and daughters], phenomenon that usually encompasses the writings of authors who lived their childhood and/or teenage years under the dictatorships in Chile (1973-1990) and Argentina (1976- 1983). Likewise, this category could be applied to the literary productions of the generation that experienced the civil-military regime in Uruguay (1973- 1985). In this literary phenomenon, the condition of being hijo can be understood, on the one hand, literally – through family ties with the parents – and, on the other, as a symbolic category, relative to the dictatorial politics that influenced the lives of children as a result of their involvement in state institutions – for example, school – or the involvement of their relatives with or against the dictatorship. In fact, both interpretative keys point to the problem of double inheritance – both of family and national histories – passed from generation to generation, which hijos are facing at the moment. Under these coordinates, the present text proposes a review of possible approaches to the problem of (a)filiation and inheritance in literatura de los hijos of the Southern Cone.
Classical Literature as Cervantes’ Creative Force versus the Apocryphal Don Quixote
The article analyzes the important role of Greco-Latin literature in Cervantes in comparison with Avellaneda’s apocryphal Don Quixote. With the masterful integration, transformation and adaptation of the cultural heritage of Greece and Rome to his own way of making literature, the writer from Alcalá invites us to reflect on themes that also occupied a preferential place in the immortal works of Antiquity, which in his hands are not limited to being a mere library of contrived resources, a sterile reference of faded and stuffy erudition, as is the case with his rival, but are intimately fused with the very essence of the work.
The Mountain and the Fall. Existentialism in Virgilio Piñera’s Literature
This article analyzes the short story “The Fall” by Virgilio Piñera from the point of view of existentialist literature. Philosophy and literature share some common characteristics within the literary text, and existentialism is a current philosophical that emphasizes the relationship between these disciplines. This paper aims to analyze the elements of philosophical existentialism that are present in the Cuban writer's short story. To do so, I will try to demonstrate that Virgilio Piñera's literature has an existentialist basis insofar as it addresses themes and ideas such as the importance of the individual, the absurd, freedom, death, etc. I will base this purpose on the main principles of French existentialism and German existentialism.