Índice onomástico, toponímico y bibliográfico de las Cartas de jesuitas, 1634-1648

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...

“He aquí un retrato del corazón del hombre que entrego al público con el nombre de Reflexiones o Máximas Morales”. La Rochefoucauld, noble, guerrero, conspirador y filósofo, hizo de su obra, llena de ironía, humor y despego, notable cinismo y prodigiosa lucidez, la más profunda reflexión moral que nos ha legado el racionalismo y, a la vez, una obra maestra del estilo, de la inteligencia, de la literatura.

Although the three authors studied, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, and Esther Tusquets, are sophisticated intellectuals, they have chosen fairy tales and texts from other marginalized genres originally for female consumption (such as the novela rosa and the Hollywood women's picture) as the major intertexts in their novels for adults as well as in their fictions for children. Against the backdrop feminist theory and recent critical studies of fairy tales and children's literature, Solino studies the works of these authors as "gendered texts." Solino's book opens with a chapter that...

The Selection Coloring Book is the perfect companion for fans of the Selection series. It features original black-and-white line drawings of favorite characters and moments from the world of Illa, as well as stunningly designed hand-lettered quotes from all five Selection books.

Entre 1967 y 1997, George Steiner escribió para The New Yorker más de 150 artículos y reseñas sobre gran variedad de asuntos, haciendo que ideas difíciles y temas poco familiares resultaran atrayentes no sólo para los intelectuales, sino también para el «gran público». A Steiner le interesan tanto la Inglaterra de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el búnker de Hitler y el mundo caballeresco como Céline, Bernhard, Cioran, Beckett, Borges, Chomsky, Brecht o el historiador-espía Anthony Blunt. En estos artículos sorprendentes por su vívida sencillez, así como profundamente instructivos...