Oniromancia

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...

En este tercer volumen de la Obra crítica de Cortázar se presenta ya a un autor experimentado y dotado de firmes convicciones estéticas y políticas, a través de su producción ensayística posterior a Rayuela. Julio Cortázar, mientras iba escribiendo su obra literaria, produjo un considerable conjunto de textos críticos de altísimo valor, tanto por su agudeza interpretativa como por la atractiva brillantez de su prosa. Estos escritos constituyen una lectura imprescindible porque ponen de manifiesto las nociones y valores determinantes en la génesis de la literatura cortazariana. Con...

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

A partir del espectacular y feron juego del 'buzkashi' se abre una historia de pasiones desencadenadas. El rey de Afganistan y su corte presencian en los llanos de Kabul este singular y violento deporte que juegan los mejores jinetes que habitan en las montanas de Afganistan, considerados los mas agiles, fieros y soberbios, poderosos y a la vez temidos por su ira. El jinete tiene que galopar con una cabeza de carnero degollada entre sus manos. El premio por ser el mas rapido e implacable es la dignidad, el honor y el derecho a existir, y Uroz ha sufrido la peor humillacion, ha sido...