Onetti's fiction is concerned with the depersonalization of human beings in the modern world. This book analyzes the theory behind his literature.

Professor Fraker argues that the Celestina, however original or singular, does not embody a new discourse, and falls easily within the literary norms of its time. Thus on the one hand it belongs to a genre, comedy, the term taken in a sense perfectly accessible to the two authors and their contemporaries. On the other, the detail and fabric of the work is in great part genuinely rhetorical.

Indice: Daniel LINK: Literatura de compromiso. - Jose AMICOLA: La incertidumbre de lo real: la narrativa de los 90 en la Argentina en la confluencia de las cuestiones de genero. - Julio PREMAT: Saer fin de siglo y el concepto de lugar. - Margarita REMON RAILLARD: La narrativa de Cesar Aira: una sorpresa continua e ininterrumpida. - Carmen de MORA: El cuento argentino en los anos 90. - Ana PORRUA: Lo nuevo en la Argentina: poesia de los 90. - Genevieve FABRY: Continuidades y discontinuidades en la poesia de Juan Gelman: una glosa de Incompletamente. - Jorge DUBATTI: Teatro argentino y destotalizacion: el canon de la multiplicidad."

A sumptuous history of Golden Age Spain that explores the irresistible tension between heavenly and earthly realms. Incomparable Realms offers a vision of Spanish culture and society during the so-called Golden Age, the period from 1500 to 1700 when Spain unexpectedly rose to become the dominant European power. But in what ways was this a Golden Age, and for whom? The relationship between the Habsburg monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church shaped the period, with both constructing narratives to bind Spanish society together. Incomparable Realms unpicks the impact of these two historical forces on thought and culture and examines the people and perspectives such powerful projections sought to eradicate. The book shows that the tension between the heavenly and earthly realms, and in particular the struggle between the spiritual and the corporeal, defines Golden Age culture. In art and literature, mystical theology and moral polemic, ideology, doctrine, and everyday life, the problematic pull of the body and the material world is the unacknowledged force behind early modern Spain. Life is a dream, as the title of Calderón’s famous play of the period proclaimed, but there is always a body dreaming it.

Explores the connections between Onetti, a foundational figure of the 1960s "Boom" in Latin American literature, and other relevant writers and texts from Latin America and beyond.