Morir es como un cuento

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...

Zoe and her band hit the Big Apple. Will they be able to prevent a crazy scheme to construct apartment buildings inside the iconic Central Park? For this adventure, they will need all the help they can get!

"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...

Este libro presenta un análisis paremiológico contrastivo entre la novela Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes y la primera traducción completa en lengua alemana, la realizada por Ludwig Tieck entre los años 1799 y 1801. Dicho análisis se lleva a cabo sobre un corpus seleccionado de 155 refranes y abarca la doble perspectiva intrínseca y extrínseca, determinando la tipología de los refranes, su función en el discurrir conversacional, su relación sintáctica con el contexto y su papel como recurso literario dentro de la novela. La intención final se centra en presentar...