Katherine Anne Porter y la revolución mexicana: de la fascinación al desencanto

The alcalde of Andujar during the reign of Henry IV of Castile (1454-1474), Escavias was also a historian, a poet, and a counselor to the king. Based on unpublished documents, this volume discusses the various aspects of his life and demonstrates conclusively that he was the author of Hechos de Miguel Lucas de Iranzo. In addition, the volume presents the most important sections of his unpublished Repertorio de principes.

"What do the statues of the world have to offer? The Great Sphinx of Giza, the Caryatids in Athens or the dragon of the Forbidden City in Beijing... are statues that have witnessed... the course of history. But what if these witnesses could talk? What would they say? In this exciting collection of stories, statues have their say. Statues of the world meet fiction and information across seven stories that contain universal themes such as freedom, fantasy or love. Each of the stories takes as inspiration a representative of world culture in the form of a statue, and this is both a literary...

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.

Relatos en los que la palabra, perfectamente conjugada en sus tres tiempos, pretérito, presente y futuro, es la principal protagonista para lograr la magia de la Literatura. A través de escenas del mismo realismo mágico, la autora refleja una realidad cotidiana capaz de atrapar el lector por su forma distinta de narrar y en la que dicha palabra, escrita con la sencillez a la que hace referencia el propio maestro Delibes, adquiere el protagonismo de obra literaria.