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Picaresque novel. The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for ' rogue ' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but "appealing hero", usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. [1] Picaresque novels typically adopt the form of "an episodic prose narrative ...
Y tu mamá también. Y tu mamá también (Spanish for And Your Mother Too) [1][2][3][4] is a 2001 Mexican coming-of-age comedy drama road film [5][6][7][8][9] directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who co-wrote the script with his brother Carlos. [10] It follows two teenage boys who take a road trip with a woman in her late twenties and stars Diego Luna ...
A variant of this story later appears in English folklore as the "Pedlar of Swaffham" and Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist; Jorge Luis Borges' collection of short stories A Universal History of Infamy featured his translation of this particular story into Spanish, as "The Story of the Two Dreamers". [83]
This Bridge has been hailed for providing an "easily accessible discourse, plain speaking, a return to Third World storytelling, voicing a difference in the flesh, not a disembodied subjectivity but a subject location, a political and personal positioning." [8]
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Calderón de la Barca, a key figure in the theatre of the Spanish Golden Age. Spanish Golden Age theatre refers to theatre in Spain roughly between 1590 and 1681. [1] Spain emerged as a European power after it was unified by the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in 1469 and then claimed for Christianity at the Siege of Granada in 1492. [2]
Spanish literature generally refers to literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects with that of other literary traditions from regions within the same territory, particularly Catalan ...
Short story collections by Miguel de Cervantes (2 P) Pages in category "Spanish short story collections" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.