El Castillo de cristal II.

Miguel is a naughty and curious boy. He found a thread in his garden, he pull of the thread, but he does not that this thread belong of the moon… but suddenly the moon started to dissolves.

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

En este extenso ensayo, William Ospina, analiza de manera magistral al poeta Juan de Castellanos y su obra sobre la conquista de Ámerica.

La literatura actual, aquella que llena las mesas de las librerías y copa las reseñas de los periódicos, suele incomodar a la historiografía literaria, huérfana ahí de la distancia temporal que necesita para asentar sus juicios. Por ello no abundan libros como el presente, en el que Fernando Valls, profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y reconocido crítico literario, ha reunido un amplio caudal de estudios dedicados a la novela española de los últimos decenios, la que representan, entre otros, Juan Marsé, Luis Goytisolo, Álvaro Pombo, Javier Marías, Juan José Millás, ...