Morir es como un cuento

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

One of the most intellectually and emotionally engaging of the Spanish Golden Age (seventeenth century) plays, as well as the most controversial. Taking place during the reign of King Pedro of Castile (1350¡1369), it is one of the spectacular 'honour dramas', in which the main characters confront compelling yet conflicting imperatives.

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

El presente libro reúne diversos ensayos y cartas, inéditos hasta la fecha en español, en los que Shelley plasmó sus ideas sobre literatura, filosofía, arte y moral, y que ofrecen una precisa panorámica de sus preocupaciones en estas materias, las cuales también se encuentran en el trasfondo de su poesía. Los textos aquí recogidos, escritos con una prosa incisiva y melódica que predispone al lector a sentir toda la carga emocional de su obra literaria, resultan imprescindibles para entender el pensamiento europeo del Romanticismo.