El espacio urbano en la narrativa del Madrid de la Edad de Plata (1900-1938)

Como suele ocurrir con algunas de las novelas fundamentales del continente americano, "El mulato", un verdadero clásico de la narrativa brasileña, rompe los moldes europeos en los que se basa y consigue un tejido extraño, nuevo, engañosamente ingenuo, donde el naturalismo se libera de toda ortodoxia para dejarse conteminar por el dinamismo y la sorpresa del folletín romántico, la novela de aventuras o de misterio. Una combinación feliz y excéntrica que los lectores no podemos dejar de celebrar. Cumpliendo a cabalidad la máxima borgiana de que los libros se corrigen solos con el paso...

Gérard de Nerval se ha convertido en una figura central de la literatura universal del siglo XIX. En sus poemas y en sus delicadas y alucinantes narraciones dibujó con precisión febril todo un mundo de imágenes que inquietan y conmueven. El autor analiza la dimensión espiritual de este gran poeta.

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."