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The Telling Room
A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Entertainment Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • The Christian Science Monitor
In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone...
Espectros
Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latino diaspora. In recent decades, scholarship in deconstructionist "hauntology," trauma studies, affect...
The Rise of Euroskepticism
Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites,...
The Theater of Truth
The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
The Theater of Truth argues that seventeenth-century baroque and twentieth-century neobaroque aesthetics have to be understood as part of the same complex. The Neobaroque, rather than being a return to the stylistic practices of a particular time and place, should be described as the continuation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Cervantes in Perspective brings together original essays on Miguel de Cervantes´s life and literature written by nine significant Cervantes scholars. Readers and scholars of Early Modern Spanish literature will find a discussion of current theories of fiction, the latest analyses of individual texts,...
Idle Fictions
The Hispanic Vanguard Novel, 1926–1934, Expanded edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1993
The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was perceived as the established course of the modern Hispanic novel's development. Yet, as Pérez...
by Baltasar Gracian
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can...
Miguel de Cervantes
El maestro de la locura
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Miguel de Cervantes es, sin lugar a dudas, el escritor más célebre de habla hispana. Su obra se enmarca en el contexto del Siglo de Oro español, el momento de máximo esplendor de las artes en España que tiene lugar desde finales del siglo XV hasta mediados del XVII. Con su tratamiento original...
by Miguel de Unamuno
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2018
El libro de entretenimiento más original de la literatura universal inicia y culmina un nuevo género: la novela moderna. Unamuno se entregó a retratar, exaltar y hasta venerar la figura del Hidalgo. Con una extraña mezcla de admiración y animadversión hacia Cervantes, Unamuno tomando el Quijote...
Poemarios Completos: Más De 100 Poemas (Golden Deer Classics)
Castellanas, Extremeñas, Campesinas, Nuevas Castellanas, Religiosas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 16, 2018
José María Gabriel y Galán fue un poeta español en castellano y dialecto extremeño. El presente libro incluye los poemarios siguientes: Castellanas (1902) Extremeñas (1902) Campesinas (1904) Nuevas Castellanas (1905) Religiosas (1906)
by Elena Fortún, Andrés Trapiello
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Acerca de la primera y única edición, hasta este momento, de 'Celia en la revolución' dice Andrés Trapiello en su prólogo: "lo que sucedió con (este) libro fue misteriosísimo, un caso único. Apenas publicado, desapareció de las librerías y únicamente en el mercado de viejo ha ido apareciendo...
by Roberto González Echevarría
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
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...
by Alfonso Reyes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2019
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.
Entre Eternidades
Y otros escritos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2018
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,...