Crónicas de un muerto

Is happiness possible? The author is a lucid and radical pessimist. In this forceful and provocative essay, he addresses the reality of human beings and the myths we create to support it.

This book is based on the assumption that the problem of American literatures written in European languages is not the burden of Europe but the fact that they are second or further literatures written in the same language as older ones that happen to be located in Europe. The papers collected here address the following questions: Is it possible for two or more distinct literatures to coexist in the same language? If the distinction is more than merely ideological and convenient, what are the differences, and how did they come about? Is it reasonable to assume that differentiation followed...

Este libro recoge todos los poemas de temática amatoria contenidos en los Carmina Burana, obra cumbre de la lírica medieval en la que se dan cita composiciones de carácter erótico, críticas a las costumbres del clero, referencias al mundo clásico, etc. Van acompañados de un completo estudio introductorio que sitúa la obra en el contexto socio-cultural de la época.

Esta monografía compendia una selección de trabajos que versan sobre traducción literaria (inglesa, francesa y árabe), traducción especializada (comercial, jurídica, médica o agroalimentaria), sin olvidar didáctica de la traducción, traducción audiovisual, interpretación y lexicografía.