Description:
Thursdays with Leila exemplifies the slapdash style and narrative verve, piety and subversion, timeless myth and topicality that made Corín Tellado the queen of the Spanish romance.
Brief description: Duncan Wheeler is Associate Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Leeds, and Visiting Professor of the Carlos III University in Madrid. His monographs include Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain (2012) and The Cultural Politics of Spain's Transition to Democracy (2017). He is Hispanic editor for Modern Language Review.
Review Quotes:
'La estimable traducción al inglés de Los jueves de Leila, por parte de los profesores Duncan Wheeler y Diana Holmes, uno de los más conocidos relatos de Corín Tellado y que inicia la serie: "Querer es poder", abre la puerta al género romántico de esta prolí ca escritora asturiana al mundo anglosajón.' - Estefanía Tocado, Hispania 101.2, June 2018, 344-45
'Wheeler's translation of Thursdays with Leila captures the informal, non-demanding style of Tellado's writing, and this particular novel was a very good choice for translation as it illustrates most of the dominant characteristics of her fiction.' - Patricia O'Byrne, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 95, 2018, 905-06