Variaciones lógicas de la memoria

Herman Melville (1819-1891) no sólotiene asegurado un puesto de honor en la literatura norteamericana, sinoque ocupa uno de los lugares privilegiados en la historia de la literaturauniversal, como demuestra su actual prestigio y el intenso debate acercade su complejo mundo literario. Como ocurre con demasiada frecuencia, Melvilleno alcanzó la fama en vida: su novela más popular, MobyDick, publicada cuando el escritor contaba poco más de treintaaños, pasó casi inadvertida. La mayor parte de sus librostiene el mar como escenario, pero el genio de Melville trasciendeel simple relato...

The characters of The Walking Dead live in a desolate post-apocalyptic world, filled with relentless violence and death. In reality, how would such never-ending stress and trauma affect the psyche? By understanding the psychological forces that drive the series' action, viewers can better appreciate it.

Text in Spanish. Pedro Páramo, the only novel published by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, is a masterpiece. Tras los murmullos offers six different readings and analyses of the novel by Mexican and Scandinavian scholars. Contrary to what might be expected, the Scandinavian reader is able to identify with the solitude of the characters in the novel, the language of few words of the peasants and the careful linguistic awareness of Rulfo. This may not be surprising since Rulfo was, as discussed in one of the chapters, inspired by Scandinavian literature, which he admired. Also discussed here is ...

With the mixture of erudition and amenity that characterizes it, Rdiger Safranski traces, first, the biography of the exceptional movement called Romanticism, which lasts about thirty years and hatch in the passage of the XVII century to the XVIII century, through the portrait and analysis of authors such as Herder, Fichte, Schelling, Schiller and Hoffmann. Then the 'romantic' attitude which, in the words of Novalis, is to confer to the vulgar a higher sense.