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In medieval literature there is a long tradition of feminin transvestism, from hagiography to chivalric romances. In all of them, the change of identity motif lends itself to various ambiguities and paradoxes which are the main features in Le Roman de Silence not only in syntax but also in it's main themes. The other protagonist of the text, Merlin, a hybrid character himself, who recalls the trickster --a trait shared with Silence--, is a key figure acting as a catalyst for the plot. As such, his mere apparition in the romance alerts the reader to the paradoxes and the ambiguities at the core of a work whose trickster-like characteristics are examined as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

María Teresa Andruetto, the Argentinean writer and winner of the 2012 Andersen award, is an acknowledged author of children's literature. Stemming from the theory of investigators Zohar Shavit, Maria Nikolajeva and Teresa Colomer, in this study I will analyse some of her texts (El país de Juan, Stefano – Juan's Country, Stefano) from the comparative point of view, establishing similarities with the Slovenian writer France Bevk, as well as the ambiguity dimension of Andruetto's texts by stressing those elements suitable for children's and also adults reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article will analyze the unusual way Jorge Volpi's El fin de la locura has to present its representative constructions. Parody and carnival elements —intertwined in a complex multiplicity of voices— make up a proposal based on a dementia principle. Each voice (that of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault and Barthes) help make up the configuration of narrative universe where incoherence, power and ambiguity prevail together with a parodic take-over of an intellectual world and that of the conditioning of contemporary thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]