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  • José Bergamín

    A Critical Introduction, 1920-1936

    par Nigel Dennis ...
    Collections series Heritage
    Writer, critic, and cultural activist José Bergamín (1895-1983) was unjustly relegated to the sidelines of contemporary Spanish intellectual life for reasons that have more to do with his political dissidence and long periods of exile than with the interest and importance of his written work. This book represents the first attempt to come to terms with that work.Professor Dennis's study focuses on ... En savoir plus

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  • Prosas

    Collections series Colección Obra Fundamental
    Con el propósito de destacar la importancia de las aportaciones de José Díaz Fernández a la literatura de los años veinte del siglo pasado, Nigel Dennis — catedrático de Literatura Contemporánea Española en la Universidad de St. Andrews del Reino Unido— rescata el núcleo esencial de sus escritos. La antología recoge sus mejores novelas ( El blocao, La Venus mecánica y Octubre rojo en Asturias), el ... En savoir plus

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  • Cards of Identity

    par Nigel Dennis ...
    'Formerly, he thinks to himself, an artist took real people and transformed them into painted ones: how much finer and more satisfying is the modern method of assuming that people are not real at all, only self-painted, and of proceeding to make them real by giving them new selves based on the best-available theories of human nature...'In Nigel Dennis's 1955 novel - instantly acclaimed as a ... En savoir plus

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  • Boys and Girls Come Out to Play

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    'Everyone who now remembers Nigel Dennis thinks that his first novel was Cards of Identity (1955). But in fact he had already written Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1949)... what I recall liking so much about it was first the story of a young man's emergence from the dark tunnel of his childhood, with the discovery that there are drugs to control the epilepsy that has kept him imprisoned, and ... En savoir plus

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  • A House in Order

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    A House in Order was Nigel Dennis's third and final novel, first published in 1966.'A quizzical pleasure... This civilized conundrum is about a nameless man captured in a timeless war in an anonymous country who manages to survive in a greenhouse, where he is most protected as well as most exposed... An antiseptic little man, a cartographer by profession, a horticulturist by avocation, he spends a ... En savoir plus

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