Ensenada gris

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...

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

El éxito extraordinario de los libros del sacerdote y humanista Charles Moeller dan nueva actualidad a Sabiduría griega y paradoja cristiana, una de sus primeras obras. En ella Moeller, que ha inaugurado un género literario nuevo, el de la crítica literaria y teológica, analiza y contrasta las relaciones entre el mundo griego y el cristianismo a través de sus respectivas concepciones del Mal, del pecado y de la libertad, ciñéndose a grandes autores como Virgilio, Racine, Cicerón, Shakespeare, Platón, Dostoievski y otros. El «hombre nuevo» de san Pablo en contraposición al hombre...

Geronimo Stilton viaja al Reino de la fantasía y descubre cómo huelen las brujas, las sirenas, los dragones, las hadas, los duendes... ¡Éste es el primer libro del mundo con 8 olores sorprendentes! Frótalas y huele, ¿perfume o tufo? Un excelente regalo de Navidad.