Políticas poéticas

Los artículos más combativos de uno de nuestros autores capitales. «Escribo con tanta libertad que me sorprende que me dejen.» Este libro recoge los artículos publicados por Arturo Pérez-Reverte en la revista El Semanal desde finales del año 2001 hasta el 2005. «... Esta página no puede escribirse con bisturí. Carezco de talento para eso. Los ajustes de cuentas se hacen empalmando la chaira y acuchillando en corto, a lo que salga. En poco más de un folio, y con este panorama, uno pelea y apenas tiene tiempo de mirar a cuántos se la endiña. Sigue adelante, y que el diablo...

Seven middle-aged women, who have not seen each other for more than 30 years, are called to a class reunion at which they are forced to confront a terrible secret from their childhood.

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff’s poems as cultural maps that reveal both a desire of connectivity with the world and a need for reorganizing the imaginary library of world literature. From a self-assumed position of eccentricity, de Greiff builds a network of global connections and disputes the binary division of cultural centers and...

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...