Antigüedad y actualidad de Luis Vélez de Guevara

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Una mano inexorable está rompiendo los sellos del Apocalipsis. La misma mano que ha atentado contra la vida de Trent, y Maya no pude soportar que su amor lo arriesgue todo por ella. ¿Se desatará la catástrofe definitiva o se abrirán las puertas de una nueva era?

"Ad Memoriam", desarrolla de principio a fin la vida de un pensador, y es por tanto una biografía; pero analiza su obra, y en ese concreto aspecto pertenece al ensayismo. Pedro Sevylla de Juana cuenta en este libro, una historia de rico argumento dotado de intriga, y por ese lado es una novela. Biografía, ensayo ficción o novela cultivada, el autor somete al análisis filosófico las principales interrogantes que abre la existencia a quien busca explicaciones, y al examen literario aspectos fundamentales de la creación y la lingüística.

The summer has really bad for Manolito. He is condemned, once again, to spend the holidays in his small flat in Carabanchel Alto with his mother, his grandfather and his little brother. And he has failed mathematics, to his mother's chagrin. Manolito looks forward to the arrival of his father, a truck driver, to take the family to the beach.