Hispanic American Literature: Authors and Works
Miguel Hernandez:
Inexhaustible metaphorical imagination. Works: Proficient in moons that never ceases Ray (Ramon Sijé Elegia), Wind of the people, He lurks, Cancionero i romance absences.
Poetry Rooted:
Topics: Love, Family, Catholic Faith. Estilo: Language sober and balanced. Luis Rosales: April and house burning.
Poetry Uprooted:
Topics: Search for the meaning of human existence, expressive force. Damaso Alonso: Hijos de la ira, Dark story, Man and God.
Realism Existential
Bitter Reflection of everyday life. Topics: loneliness frustration of illusions, uprooting of the characters. The stories are showing social unrest.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester:
The joys and shadows, La Saga / Fuga. Carmen Laforet: Nada. Ramon J. Sender: Iman, Seven Sundays, Cronica del Alba, King and Queen.
Theater Postwar Features: Entertainment
Linia follows the comic theater, but also written thesis dramas and historical dramas. Topics: Real World: rift loving marital unhappiness, financial problems, stress Calvo Sotelo and Jose Lopez Rubio. Poetic world or fantastico: Element improbable and create a fantastic world, distorting reality, include Edgar Neville, Henry Jardiel Poncela, Miguel Mihura.
Miguel Mihura:
Three hats: Argument: Focuses on the night before the wedding of Dionysus, when he meets Paula, which brings to light another paosibilida life untethered. This results in conflict between social and convecionalismos value of freedom, but the resignation acabon i fear returning them to the moral fold in its class. Characters: Dionisio, Paula, the odious Mr. Don Sacramento, Mr. Rosario, Madame Olga ..
Joaquin Calvo Sotelo:
A little girl of Vallalodid. Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena: Where are you going Alfonso XII?. Jose Lopez Rubio: the other side, the blindfold. Jose Maria Peman: The house, street and dead.
Vanguard:
Revolutionary in their approach to literary renewal. Ultraism and creationism. Poesia Negra.
Cesar Vallejo:
It breaks radically with the traditional structure. Works: The Black Heralds, Trilce, human Poetry, Spain, the calyx aprta me. Pablo Neruda: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, the man Tentative infinite Residencia en la tierra, Canto general, Elementary Odes.
Novel of the 40s:
Follow a realistic linia and sticks to a traditional structural patterns. Topics: Nature America, denounces social injustice, historical events. Novel of the Earth: Dona Barbara (Rómulo Gallegos), Don Segundo Sombra (Ricardo Güiraldes). Indigenist novel: concern about the situation of the Indian, testimony and denunciation of oppression. Work: The world is wide and strange. Novela de la Revolucion Mexicana: The Underdogs (Mariano Azuela).
Renewal of the 40s:
Incorporates elements mythical, legendary and magical. Gives rise to magical realism. There are new narrative currents. Novel dictators, metaphysical novels, and existentialist novels.
Miguel Angel Asturias:
Mr. President. Alejo Carpentier: The use of the method. Juan Carlos Onetti: The Shipyard. Ernesto Sabato: The tunnel.
The Boom:
Mario Vargas Llosa: Renews the canons of realism. Works: The City and the Dogs, The Green House, Conversation in the Cathedral, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. Julio Cortazar: Hopscotch. Carlos Fuentes: The Death of Artemio Cruz . Augusto Roa Bastos: I, the Supreme.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
Works: Leaf Storm, the Colonel, one writes, Big Mama’s Funeral, In Evil Hour, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera.
Juan Rulfo:
El llano en llamas, Pedro Paramo. Style: integrate narrative modes of oral tradition with the most diverse narrative techniques.
Narrative After the Boom:
Magical realism (House of the Spirits), Humor and irony (The Savage Detectives), literary references found (Burning Patience), film references (Kiss of the Spider Woman).
Alfredo Bryce Echenique:
A World for Julius. Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Three Trapped Tigers. Roberto Bolaño: The gaucho insufferable or killer whores.
The Hispanic American Story: Trends
Story realistic fairy tale, magic realism. Microrrelatos: Augusto Monterroso. Jose Luis Borges: Topics: the mystery of existence, duality, time and the meaning of the universe