Recambios Luna

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 estas memorias se combina un rigor ensayístico en el análisis del contradictorio proceso histórico de la República Democrática Alemana (RDA), con una amenidad singular que surge de significativas anécdotas de la vida del autor como estudiante de literatura alemana y dramaturgia en Leipzig, y como practicante en el Berliner Ensemble, el mundialmente famoso teatro fundado por Bertolt Brecht. En la primera parte se analizan graves contradicciones entre los intereses de la ex URSS y la RDA. No obstante, las vivencias del autor y las relaciones sexuales, amorosas y amistosas que vivía la ...

The author of the book analyzes five short stories of one of the most significant writers of modern Latin American literature with a mythocritical and symbological approach. From among the endeavors to define and systematize the ancient literary figures for the interpretation of existence (myth, symbol), the author opts for Gilbert Durand's comprehensive system originating in cultural anthropology as a theoretical foundation and starting point for her analytical strategy. The original and dynamic analyses of the short stories, which, at the same time, respect the aspects indicated by the...

Unique in coverage, this comprehensive one-volume anthology of Latin American literature, from pre-Columbian times to the present, covers not only the authors accepted within the literary canon, but innovative contemporary voices that are now breaking the ethnocentric mold.