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...

El objetivo que persigue el presente volumen es reconsiderar la narrativa española de los años veinte, bajo una luz nueva que interrogue, a la vez, las condiciones materiales de la creación y los novedosos discursos narrativos que las mismas facilitan.

Sze's poetry is bold and versatile and brings together "disparate realms of experience." -The New Yorker

La 'Colación muy provechosa' de Fray Hernando de Talavera figura entre los primeros escritos dirigidos a la reina Isabel en el primer lustro de gobierno. La obra potencia la renovación individual y resalta las propiedades simbólicas de la reina de las aves. Esta pieza sermonaria, puso en manos de Isabel un programático discurso moral para uso de la nueva gobernadora. En el 'Breve Tractado de los loores de San Juan Evangelista' presidido por la doctrina cristológica, es una alabanza perfecta del apóstol, en una argumentación dialéctica implacable, destinada a canalizar la dimensión...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...