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The Perpetual Orgy
Flaubert and Madame Bovary
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
The Perpetual Orgy is Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant analysis of Gustav Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary. In this remarkable book, "we not only enjoy a dazzling explication, but experience a master discoursing at the top of his form on the craft of the novel" (Robert Taylor, The Boston...
by Dave Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
There are a hundred and one books available with recipes for tapas.
This is not one of them!
This is an introduction to tapas culture in Spain.
Learn to enjoy tapas like a local.
You need this e-book before you next visit Spain!
Cervantès, le père de Don Quichotte
L’enfant terrible du Siècle d’or espagnol
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Décryptez l’univers de Cervantès en moins d’une heure !Considéré comme l’un des plus grands écrivains espagnols de tous les temps, Cervantès a mené une vie à l’image de celle de ses héros. Faite de mille et une péripéties toutes plus rocambolesques les unes que les autres, son existence...
Between Eternities
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A new, exhilarating collection of critical and personal writings--spanning more than twenty years of work--from the internationally renowned author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White. A Vintage Books Original.
Javier Marías is a tireless examiner of the world around us: essayist, novelist,...
An Unwritten Novel
Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
"Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path or a problem," says Bernardo Soares, the putative author of Fernando Pessoa's classic The Book of Disquiet. Thomas Cousineau's An Unwritten Novel offers the general reader, as well as students...
Blindness by José Saramago (Book Analysis)
Complete Summary and Book Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!
Blindness tells the story of a group of people who, for some unknown reason, suddenly lose their sight. They are all sent to an asylum where the inmates quickly turn to violence and force to get what they want....
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Roundabout To Boston by the American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, William Dean Howells.Howells was a Christian socialist whose ideals were greatly influenced by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy.He joined a Christian socialist group in Boston between 1889 and 1891 and attended several...
Interiors and Narrative
The Spatial Poetics of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Interiors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development...
Figuring the Feminine
The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary...
Ferran
The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The first-ever biography of Ferran Adrià, the chef behind Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant, by one of the world's foremost food authorities.
More than just the most influential chef of the late-twentieth and early-twenty- first century, Ferran Adrià is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary...
by Jean Dangler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these literatures,...
by William J. Purkis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and...
Don Quixote Among the Saracens
A Clash of Civilizations and Literary Genres
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The fictional Don Quixote was constantly defeated in his knightly adventures. In writing Quixote's story, however, Miguel Cervantes succeeded in a different kind of quest — the creation of a modern novel that ‘conquers’ and assimilates countless literary genres. Don Quixote among the Saracens...