Spanish category: 1851 books

"Psicopatología de la vida cotidiana" es una obra de Sigmund Freud de 1901, en la que se analiza lo que desde entonces se conoce como acto fallido (lapsus linguae o lapsus freudiano).   Sigmund Freud (Príbor, 6 de mayo de 1856-Londres, 23 de septiembre de 1939) fue un médico neurólogo...

Although the life of Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) was tragically brief, the Spanish poet and dramatist created an enduring body of work that remains internationally important. This selection of 55 poems from the 1921 collection Libro de poemas represents some of his finest work. Imbued with Andalusian folklore, rich in metaphor, and spiritually complex.

The novel Don Quixote, written in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, is widely considered to be one of the greatest fictional works in the entire canon of Western literature. At once farcical and deeply philosophical, Cervantes’ novel and its characters...

De un autor censurado en el Quijote: Antonio de Torquemada, ensayo de Alfonso Reyes , es un tomo de la serie del FCE "Cenzontle". Otros autores de la colección: Carmen Boullosa, Jan de Vos, Norbert Elias, Carlos García Gual, Luis Felipe Fabre, Claudio Lomnitz, Andrea Martínez Barcas, Ruy Pérez Tamayo.

Una nueva y estimulante colección de textos personales y críticos de Javier Marías, aclamado autor de Los enamoramientos y Corazón tan blanco, que abarcan más de veinte años de su trabajo como escritor. Javier Marías es un incansable examinador del mundo que nos rodea: ensayista, novelista,...

Zu Recht gilt der Don Quijote als der erste moderne Roman. Sein Umfang indessen macht es dem Leser nicht einfach, ihn im Original zu lesen. Die Auswahl, die der renommierte Hispanist Hans-Jörg Neuschäfer zusammengestellt hat, bietet etwa ein Viertel des Originaltextes mit ausführlichen Lesehilfen....

El licenciado Vidriera, published in 1613, is one of twelve stories that compose the Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The argument is at follows: Student Tomás Rodaja loses his mind because of a love potion. He believes that he has a body of glass which is very fragile, and becomes...

Now, for the first time, the stories of Spanish writer Leopoldo Alas have been translated into English. This is an important collection from a writer who is remembered as a master story-teller.

First published in 1977, this book studies the picaresque as a literary genre. It begins by discriminating between the literature of roguery and the picaresque in particular before discussing the origins of the genre in Spain and tracing its development into Europe. The book concludes with a brief...

Este estudio explora la representación de la población negra en tres diferentes textos correspondientes a Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia (Alto Perú a finales del periodo colonial). La naturaleza heterogénea de estos textos constituye la base y dirección de este trabajo; esta diversidad permite observar...

One of the most widely-read and translated Spanish works in sixteenth-century Europe was Fernando de Rojas' Celestina, a 1499 novel in dialogue about a couple that faces heartbreak and tragedy after being united by the titular brothel madam. In 'Celestina' and the Ends of Desire, E. Michael Gerli...

Francisco de la Torre has long been praised as an outstanding poet in the mould of Garcilaso de la Vega and his simplicity of style and soft, gentle, Arcadian environment of his poetry have been emphasized. In this volume Professor Hughes attempts to define more accurately the position of Francisco...

Collecting and displaying finely crafted objects was a mark of character among the royals and aristocrats in Early Modern Spain: it ranked with extravagant hospitality as a sign of nobility and with virtue as a token of princely power. Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain explores...

¿Tienes control sobre tus emociones? ¿Te gustaría mejorar tu autoconciencia y tus relaciones? La Inteligencia Emocional nos afecta todos los días. Algunos son más susceptibles a ella, es cierto, pero todos y cada uno de nosotros nos vemos afectados de alguna manera por ella y es...