Death and the Doctor Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Tales

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.Fedorchek, Robert M. is the author of 'Death and the Doctor Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Tales' with ISBN 9780838753699 and ISBN 0838753698.