El ruido de las nueces

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

A thorough study of the life and works of the Chilean poet, winner of the 1991 "Premio Pablo Neruda."

Me encuentro y me pierdo en los cuentos de Viridiana; al leerlos siento que ella nos presta, a nosotras mujeres, su potente voz. Una voz capaz de decir con humor lo que importa, de contarnos del vacío, de la soledad... la misma voz que nos relata la cartografía de un desamor mientras uno de sus personajes hace la relación de los objetos que olvidó en una casa que ya no es la suya. Viridiana nos presta su voz para hablarle a quien escuche de nuestros miedos, pero también para invitarnos a descongelar los perdones, a quitar el óxido a los tequieros, a desanudar las ilusiones, a ser...

With the mixture of erudition and amenity that characterizes it, Rdiger Safranski traces, first, the biography of the exceptional movement called Romanticism, which lasts about thirty years and hatch in the passage of the XVII century to the XVIII century, through the portrait and analysis of authors such as Herder, Fichte, Schelling, Schiller and Hoffmann. Then the 'romantic' attitude which, in the words of Novalis, is to confer to the vulgar a higher sense.