Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Tragedy and Fate
Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian novelist who worked at various newspapers in the country. In 1967, he wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude. The years 1981-82 are important for his chronicle of public life, and he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of the issues highlighted is the tragic drama, the fatal destiny. In the novel, an atmosphere of tragedy prevails. Santiago Nasar is the one who bears the weight of the inevitable tragic fate, as foreshadowed in the title of the novel.
Read MorePlautus, Seneca, Virgil: Key Figures in Roman Literature
Plautus (Archaic Period)
He is considered the most genuine comic writer of Roman literature. He also organized performances of great public success, despite the financial problems encountered. Noted for his adaptations of Greek New Comedy.
- Host: Jupiter is in love with Alcmene and makes her believe that her husband was returning from the war. The tone is familiar and everyday.
- The Comedy of the Pot: An old miser has found a pot of gold and does not trust anyone.
- Menaechmus: A character looking for his
The Generation of ’27: A Literary Renaissance
The Spanish Generation of ’27: A Deep Dive
New roads opened by the poetic work of Juan Ramón Jiménez and the renewal of avant-garde experiments formed an environment where a group of poets gave Spanish literature a new moment of brilliance. The extraordinary quality of their poetic production is undeniable. This group, known as the Generation of ’27, included figures like Jorge Guillén, Gerardo Diego, Federico García Lorca, Dámaso Alonso, Vicente Aleixandre, Luis Cernuda, and Rafael Alberti.
Read MoreOvid: Life, Works, and Influence
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – 17 AD)
He studied in Rome and joined the literary circle of Maecenas, but fell into disfavor with Emperor Augustus, who banished him to Pontus (Black Sea), where he died without receiving a pardon. Ovid cultivated lyric, epic, and epistolography.
He is arguably the last great elegiac poet, though his depiction of love is conventional and full of erudition. Ovid was a poet with a knack for writing and great technical perfection, which led him to write many verses, in which
Read MoreSpanish Novel: Evolution and Key Authors (1940-Present)
The Spanish Novel: From Post-War to Present
The Novel of Exile
Key Themes: Memory of Spain, causes and consequences of the Civil War, references to places and environments of exile.
Important Post-War Novelists:
- Ramon J. Sender: Chronicle of Dawn, recreating his childhood and youth.
- Rosa Chacel: Memoirs of Leticia Valle, concerned with the aesthetics of realism.
- Max Aub: His most important work is The Magic Labyrinth.
- Francisco Ayala: Short stories dealing with corruption and the power of dictatorships.
Evolution of Galician Narrative: 1975 to Present
Freedoms in earnings during the transition (1975-1981) allowed a surge of publications in Portugal, the emergence of new publishers (Galaxy), and literary prizes that strive to make classical texts available to new generations, or check out the literature on the *testemuñalista* Civil War, still in full swing, as Cunqueiro narrators (The Other Marketer, 1979) or Fole (Stories that Nobody Believes, 1985). Out of the cycle of new narrative, works are published by Galician actors such as Mª Xosé
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