Bolero. El vicio de quererte

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

Lección magistral impartida por Pedro C. Cerrillo en el acto de inauguración del curso académico de la Universidad Española, presidido por SS.MM. los Reyes de España.

Esta obra constituye una oportuna contribución a los estudios literarios del Caribe colombiano. Si bien no todos los escritores examinados proceden de este espacio cultural, ni han tenido el mismo reconocimiento, la preeminencia del Caribe queda fuera de toda sospecha con estudios sobre Gabriel García Márquez, Germán Espinosa, Alberto Duque López, Alejandro Álvarez y Efraim Medina Reyes. Sus páginas, que complementan artículos sobre William Ospina, Alfredo Bryce Echenique y Juan José Saer, conjugan la precisión de la crítica contemporánea con el lenguaje de los textos bien...

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...