El pesimismo en tres novelas dominicanas de la posguerra

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

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La mejor novela de Vita Sackville-West, admirada por Virginia Woolf y convertida en un clásico. «Toda la elegancia, toda la ironía y, bajo una tersa superficie, una buena dosis de veneno. Una lectura muy sabrosa.» Rosa Montero «Se preguntó qué heridas eran más profundas: las desgarradas heridas de la realidad, o las hondas e invisibles magulladuras de la imaginación.» Lord Slane, baluarte del Imperio y gran estadista, ha muerto. Le sobreviven su viuda y seis hijos dispuestos a ocuparse de ella. Pero Lady Slane tiene otros planes: la sumisa esposa y complaciente madre quiere al fin...

La diversidad de Oaxaca es tanto geogr fica como humana: coexisten diecis is grupos tnicos de origen prehisp nico, mestizos y japoneses, libaneses, sirios, turcos y coreanos, s lo por mencionar algunos de los actuales habitantes del estado. la presente Breve historia de Oaxaca da cuenta de estas riquezas.