La Caída

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

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«Observemos la fotografía: es en blanco y negro y la dudosa nitidez de sus contrastes denuncia los límites de la técnica de su momento y la fecha ya lejana en que ha sido tomada. Sabemos que fue en 1947, probablemente a finales del año. En ella aparecen tres hermanas».

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...