Modern Spanish Prose

Professor Gustave W. Andrian graduated from Trinity College with a B.A. in Modern Languages and began his studies for the doctorate in Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University. While there, he had the great fortune to study with one of the great Spanish poets of the twentieth century, Pedro Salinas. After a hiatus of two-plus years, during which he taught in the Army Specialized Training Program in World War II, and also for a year at the University of Maryland, Andrian returned to Johns Hopkins, and received his doctorate shortly after the war ended.   Dr. Andrian accepted a position at Trinity College and spent the rest of his career there. Finding only elementary classes in Spanish, he gradually built a program of studies over the years that led to a major in Spanish. Besides a full teaching load, he established an exchange program with the University of Puerto Rico, an M.A. program in Spanish, and helped to found a study-abroad program in Córdoba, Spain. His own field of concentration while teaching was twentieth century Spanish literature.

A Selection of Prose   1. Pedro Espinosa Bravo  (Spain)                   El limpiabotas   2. Mercedes Salisachs  (Spain)                     Feliz Navidad, señor Ballesteros   3. Silvina Ocampo  (Argentina)                   La casa de azúcar   4. Marco Denevi  (Argentina)                     Los fracasados   5. Mercedes Abad  (Spain)                            Una bonita combinación   6. Adolfo Bioy Casares  (Argentina)        Una aventura   7. Gregorio López y Fuentes  (México) Una carta a Dios   8. José Donoso  (Chile)      Una señora   9. Horacio Quiroga  (Uruguay) El almohadón de plumas 10. Julio Cortázar  (Argentina) Continuidad de los parques 11. Jacinto Benavente  (Spain) El criado de don Juan 12. Gabriel García Márquez  (Colombia) La siesta del martes 13. Marina Mayoral  (Spain)  Ensayo de comedia 14. Lydia Cabrera  (Cuba)  El limo del Almendares 15. Laura Freixas  (Spain)  Final absurdo 16. Isabel Allende  (Chile) La venganza 17. Jorge Luis Borges  (Argentina)   Emma Zunz 18. Javier García Sánchez  (Spain) Teoría de eternidad 19. Carme Riera  (Spain) El reportaje  

A Selection of Poetry

20. Rubén Darío  (Nicaragua)   Para una cubana                                           Mía                                                 Lo fatal 21. Pablo Neruda  (Chile)         Walking around 22. Gabriela Mistral  (Chile)          Los sonetos de la muerte                                        La espera inútil                                           El niño solo 23. Miguel Hernández  (Spain)   Canción primera                                           Aunque tú no estás 24. Rosario Castellanos  (México)     Malinche                                                  Jornada de una soltera