Ni orden ni patria

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...

En este primer volumen de la Obra periodística de García Márquez, que abarca el período desde que empezó a escribir para El Universal de Cartagena, en mayo de 1948, hasta diciembre de 1952, ya se advierte el pensamiento y la pasión del autor. Los artículos que componen Textos costeños, primer volumen de la Obra periodística de Gabriel García Márquez, abarcan el período que va de mayo de 1948 a diciembre de 1952. Por un lado constituyen los primeros escritos de un joven de veinte años que llegaría a ser el novelista hispánico más importante de la actualidad y, por otro, son el...

By insisting that women should be equal partners, Pardo Bazán problematically adopted the patriarchal binarism that assigns women to Nature and men to Culture, but she also subverted it by denying its supplemental relationship. Her astute choice and manipulation of masculine cultural models (Realism, not Romanticism; prose, not poetry; Castilian language, not Galician) ultimately won her--despite fierce opposition--inclusion in the Spanish national canon. Furthermore, the study of her thorny relations with emerging Galician nationalism shows that her exclusion from "Galician literature" was...

Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man in Costa Rica, would rather practice playing his tuba, but he is called to the mountain resort of Monteverde to investigate an armed robbery of a group of tourists, and Pacheco soon finds himself pitted against a group of clever professional criminals.