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 printed in both English and Spanish.
- ISBN10 0838753698
- ISBN13 9780838753699
- Publish Date 1 January 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 10 April 2010
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Edition Illustrated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English