Mañana es ayer

Distancing itself from the abundant and voluminous books that wish to solve life’s greatest mysteries, this work reflects on the mundane and everyday, which then becomes the greatest philosophical stimulus. Alejada de los abundantes y voluminosos compendios que pretenden resolver los grandes misterios del mundo, esta obra constituye una reflexión en torno a la cotidianidad: ésta se erige, en efecto, como el mayor estímulo filosófico.

Juan Eduardo Zúñiga (Madrid, 1919) és un dels més grans prosistes moderns en llengua castellana. Les seves obres giren al voltant de dos eixos: el Madrid de la Guerra civil i de la postguerra i les literatures eslaves, amb una dedicació especial a la russa. S'han valorat sobretot els seus contes, però també ha conreat la novel·la curta, l'assaig i l'anècdota sàvia. El simbolisme que caracteriza l'obra de Zúñiga il·lumina també la d'altres grans escriptors i la de tot un corrent secret de la literatura moderna universal.

Mariano José de Larra (1809-1837) was the most critical literary voice of the first third of the Spanish nineteenth century. Whether directed against censorship, the police and the Inquisition, or mypoic social attitudes and passing fads, his writings always showcased his unique, ironic and biting temperament. Moreover, many of his essays reflected the consequences of the ongoing urbanization of Madrid. The essays titled «Jardines públicos» (1834), «La fonda nueva» (1833), «Las casas nuevas» (1833), «La vida de Madrid» (1834) and «El día de Difuntos de 1836. Fígaro en el...

Dorothy Sherman Severin, who retired in 2008 from the Gilmour Chair of Spanish at the University of Liverpool, is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of the Late Medieval literature of Spain, with particular expertise in the study of Celestina and of the Cancioneros. In this volume, nineteen of her academic admirers have contributed original chapters in her honour, mostly on these same topics, under the editorship of the Hispanist Joseph T. Snow and Professor Severin’s Liverpool colleague Roger Wright. The contributors are: Rafael Beltran, Patrizia Botta, Alan Deyermond, Louise ...