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Death and the Doctor: Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Tales

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Death and the Doctor: Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Tales - Fedorchek, Robert M, and Charnon-Deutsch, Lou
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Fernan Caballero's "Juan Holgado y la muerte/Juan Holgado and Death," Antonio de Trueba's "Tragaldabas/Glutton," and Pedro Antonio de Alarcon's "El amigo de la muerte/Death's Friend" all have as their subject a desperate man who makes a pact with Death to achieve his ends. Written by three of the country's best-known short story writers, these three Death-and-the-Doctor tales fill a lacuna in the Godfather Death motif of Western European literature and highlight the universality of Spain's folk tradition. Each tale is ...

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Death and the Doctor: Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Tales 1997, Bucknell University Press

ISBN-13: 9780838753699

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