TRES HERMANOS Y UNA MISTERIOSA MUJER

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...

La muerte es una especie de festividad en El sol negro de papá, que se lee no en la vida del muerto sino a partir de los duelos. Como la muerte es un asunto de vivos, adquiere trascendencia no en la especulación de qué pasará después de morir, sino en el qué pasa cuando la noticia le llega a alguien y este alguien se defiende de ella viviendo.Un buen logro para la literatura colombiana, que con obras como esta, de Reinaldo Spitaletta, sale de esa resignación macabra a la que tantos escritores aparecen condenados.

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.