Breves cuentos hispanos » (4th Edition)

Eufemia Sánchez de la Calle is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Marquette University in Milwaukee, where she has taught since receiving her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1990. She is the author of Isaac Montero: pionero de la narrativa española contemporánea, She has contributed numerous articles on narrative, film, and drama to professional journals.

Supplemental reader for 3rd, 4th, or 5th semester Spanish courses.

Breves cuentos hispanos offers elementary/intermediate Spanish students enjoyable, short, challenging stories. Each story includes a series of varied activities including grammar review, vocabulary development, comprehension, discussion, and opinion questions. The fourth edition of this successful reader contains 8 new stories, and twelve in all.

1. El recado – Elena Poniatowska

2. Juan Darién – Horacio Quiroga

3. Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos – José Luis Borges

4. El encuentro – Ramón Luis Acevedo

5. El huésped – Amparo Dávila

6. Continuidad de los parques – Julio Cortázar

7. Un día de estos – Gabriel García Márquez

8. La gloria de los feos – Rosa Montero

9. Estampida – Dinorah Cortés-Vélez

10. La corta vida feliz del profesor Iriarte – Alfredo Bryce Echenique

11. Rosamunda – Carmen Laforet

12. Con los ojos cerrados – Reinaldo Arenas