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Based on an analysis of six texts from three anthologies of Guatemalan short stories, I endeavor to understand some of the representative features of the poetics of 20th and 21st century writers in relation to the concerns they reveal, in keeping with the times in which they were written. In this sense, I also try to encourage dialogue between the diachronic vision of the first anthology with the regionalism of the second, while recognizing the newest writers of the third anthology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay is an analysis about the process to adapt a short story to the cinema. Strawberry and Chocolate is a Cuban film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, based on the short story El lobo, el bosque y el hombre nuevo, written by Senel Paz in 1990, whom also wrote the screenplay for the film. The story takes place in Havana. David is a university student who meets Diego, a gay intellectual unhappy with the communist regime's attitude toward the LGBT community as well as the censored conceptualization of culture. Diego, for his part, initiates the friendship with sexual intentions. Strawberry and Chocolate was notable for being the first Cuban film with an overtly gay character, but the ideas it raises about sexualities both gay and straight seem to me just as relevant and fresh right now. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]