Del franquismo a la posmodernidad

An unidentified sinner's soul is put into the body of a 14-year old boy who tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. The twist is that in order to get the chance to be reincarnated in his next life, the sinner must find out and realize what sin he committed during his own life, which apparently has something to do with the young boy whose body he inhabits. As he lives the pitiful life of a miserable teenager who was good at art but was going through the "worst day of his life," the sinner struggles to find the connections between him and this boy while living the boy's...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Este estudio se centra en el análisis del icono espiritual más relevante entre la población chicana de EEUU: la Virgen de Guadalupe. Las relecturas efectuadas por voces silenciadas hasta hoy, permiten descubrir cómo se han elaborado discursos plurales y novedosos en torno a esta imagen religiosa, herencia del catolicismo español implantado en el continente americano. Los textos analizados proponen una revisión del estereotipo de femineidad ideal transmitido por la figura guadalupana desde el punto de vista institucional. Pese a las cambiantes reubicaciones geopolíticas, el símbolo...

San Petersburgo, su luz, sus casas y sus avenidas son el escenario de esta apasionada novela. En una de esas noches blancasque se dan en la ciudad rusa durante la época del solsticio de verano, un joven solitario e introvertido narra cómo conoce de forma accidental a una muchacha a la orilla del canal. Tras el primer encuentro, la pareja de desconocidos se citará las tres noches siguientes, noches en las que ella, de nombre Nástenka, relatará su triste historia y en las que harán acto de presencia, de forma sutil y envolvente, las grandes pasiones que mueven al ser humano: el amor, la...