La Caída

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...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Estos dos volúmenes de ensayos tratan de diversos aspectos y autores de la literatura norteamericana, desde los orígenes puritanos hasta nuestros días. Desde la problemática de la posible elaboración de un canon literario norteamericano hasta, pasando por autores como Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Sinclair Lewis, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck y William Kennedy, se presenta una visión de esta literatura que tiene en cuenta los textos literarios dentro del desarrollo histórico, político y económico...

Una colección de ensayos de J.F. Yvars sobre arte del siglo XX. Con el título de Buenas maneras. Arte y artistas del siglo XX, se reúnen algunos ensayos que J.F. Yvars ha publicado de manera dispersa en catálogos, periódicos y revistas especializadas a lo largo de los últimos cinco años. Unos textos precisos y acerados que aúnan el rigor científico con una clara vocación divulgativa. Un «puñado de indagaciones sobre el arte de nuestro tiempo», en palabras del autor, que apuntan las condiciones del diálogo artístico moderno -de la obra de Torres-García, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio...