alegría de vivir, La : poemas para el crecimiento interior

With its frank sexuality and searing critique of the Church, "La Regenta" scandalized contemporary Spain when it was first published in 1885. Married to the retired magistrate of Vetusta, Ana Ozores cares deeply for her much older husband but feels stifled by the monotony of her life in the shabby and conservative provincial town. When she embarks on a quest for fulfillment through religion and even adultery, a bitter struggle begins between a powerful priest and a would-be Don Juan for the passionate young womanas body and soul. Spainas answer to "Madame Bovary, La Regenta" wittily depicts...

Dickens is considered by many the greatest of English novelists. In all his works in the creative force looks amazing proportions and the best feelings flowing streams. During the last years of his life, Charles Dickens gave a large number of public readings of his works.

This book proposes a renewed myth-critical approach to the so-called ‘wasteland modernism’ of the 1920s to reassess certain key texts of the American modernist canon from a critical prism that offers new perspectives of analysis and interpretation. Myth-criticism and, more specifically, the critical survey of myth as an aesthetic and ideological strategy fundamental for the comprehension of modernist literature, leads to an engaging discussion about the disenchantment of myth in modernist literary texts. This process of mythical disenchantment, inextricable from the cultural and...

La España evidente de Xosé Luís Barreiro es un alegato sereno, pero firme en sus argumentos, en defensa de una España repensada desde la perspectiva europea y alejada de la "irreflexiva" apuesta del independentismo catalán. Barreiro bebe de las fuentes de la historia y de la política para explicar que "las diferencias entre lo que somos y lo que dicen que somos" representan el obstáculo a salvar para recuperar los valores éticos, políticos e históricos que le den "fuerza y coherencia al acervo común" de nuestra nación. Y alejarse, aclara, de la "falsa leyenda" de una España...