Questions tagged [spanish-language]
Questions about literature in Spanish: works of literature which were originally written in the Spanish language, whether from Spain, Latin America, or elsewhere.
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A reproof that was almost remorse
In Jorge Luis Borges' story "The immortal", we find the sentences,
I explored the uninhabited spaces, and I corrected myself: The gods that built this place have died. Then I reflected upon ...
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A poem in "nombres sustantivos, sin admitir verbo alguno"
In Miguel de Cervantes' Casamiento Engañoso, I read this passage:
"What is the subject of the work?" inquired the alchemist. "It treats," said the poet, "of that part of the ...
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Who are these figures at the end of "Woodworm"?
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At the very end of Layla Martínez's Woodworm (English translation by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott) the granddaughter looks into a hidden hole and sees three bodies:
She ran ...
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Did Isabel Allende intend her book "Of Love and Shadows" to be a Greek tragedy?
When I read Isabel Allende's Of Love and Shadows, I noticed that in some ways it resembles a Greek tragedy. It contains a chorus—the inhabitants of the old people's home; the heroine has fatal flaws (...
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Why would a sinner both love and hate houses (Gabriela Mistral)?
In Gabriela Mistral's poem Flores, part of the posthumously published Poema de Chile, we find the following stanzas (emphasis added):
— No te entiendo ¿por qué tú
siempre andas pensando
para mí en ...
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Why "rojos brazos abiertos" in Gabriela Mistral's poem Anochecer?
In Gabriela Mistral's poem "Anochecer" (which can be found in the blog post Gabriela Mistral. Poemas. but not on the presumably official Gabriela Mistral website), part of the posthumously ...
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Ethnic background of characters in Rulfo's short stories
In George D. Schade's introduction to his translation of Juan Rulfo's The Burning Plain and Other Stories, he surveys and summarises this collection of short stories, with specific references to each ...
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Are some passages in "Pedro Páramo" influenced by William Faulkner?
In the Wikipedia article on Juan Rulfo, it is remarked that:
In passages of the novel Pedro Páramo, the influence of American
novelist William Faulkner is notorious, according to Rulfo's former
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Why does the narration shift between first-person and third-person in the short story "Tell them not to kill me!"?
In Juan Rulfo's short story "Tell them not to kill me!" (part of the collection The Burning Plain and Other Stories, of which George D. Schade's English translation is freely available to ...
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What was wrong with Tanilo?
In Juan Rulfo's short story "Talpa" (part of the collection The Burning Plain and Other Stories, of which George D. Schade's English translation is freely available to borrow from the ...
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Who first translated Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo into English?
In 2011, user hippietrail asked in the previous incarnation of Literature Stack Exchange,
The current English version of Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo was translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. I know ...
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Did Esteban kill Justo or not?
I've just read Juan Rulfo's short story "At daybreak" ("En la madrugada"), part of the collection The Burning Plain and Other Stories (whose Spanish original is available online ...
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What is the significance of the 'one word' in Gabriela Mistral's poem Una palabra
In Gabriela Mistral's poem Una palabra (literally "one word"), the speaker says (in the first stanza, from the translation in Mapping a different star: five poems by Gabriela Mistral),
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What were the works of Tagore that Mistral commented on?
Mistral's first published collection, Desolación, contains a number of prose works in addition to her poetry. In one of them, "Commentarios a poemas de Rabindranath Tagore", Mistral wrote ...
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Who was Blanca Subercaseaux, to whom Gabriela Mistral dedicated the poem Encargo a Blanca?
Many of Gabriela Mistral's poems are dedicated to specific persons. These are often authors who can be looked up on the Spanish Wikipedia, such as Emma Godoy, Max Daireaux, Francis de Miomandre, José ...
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