¡Literatura!

La literatura en lengua alemana abarca una amplia tradición cultural que vertebra buena parte de la historia de Europa. Desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días, son numerosos los autores de ámbito germánico que han determinado el rumbo de la cultura occidental, hasta el punto de que resulta imposible imaginar cómo sería esta sin la influencia de Lutero, Kant, Goethe, Kafka o Günter Grass. La presente obra ofrece una visión general de la literatura producida en lengua alemana, hace hincapié en la contextualización de los géneros, los autores y las obras, y muestra cómo se articulan ...

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.

"Once upon a time there was a brave little silver colored fish. He swam around in the big blue sea and came upon a very large black object. What happens next and how it finishes, is what this book is about!"

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...