Morir es como un cuento

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

A más de dos años de la desaparición de Gabriel García Márquez los trabajos aquí reunidos presentan lecturas diversas de periodistas, profesores y escritores alrededor de la persona y la obra de más relieve en la cultura colombiana, Si el título de este libro une el nombre del escritor a la conjunción de literatura y memoria es porque el hijo mayor del telegrafista de Aracataca nos enseñó a contemplar en sus tramas, metáforas e imágenes esa reunión de realidades e irrealidades que es nuestra historia.

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

A romance between a priest and a nun-in-training leads to her pregnancy and his suicide. She is Gabriella Harrison, daughter of parents who abandoned her to a convent. The affair leads to her expulsion and she becomes a writer.