El Siglo de Oro en la España contemporánea

Enrique Jardiel Poncela fue el renovador del teatro cómico español. Jardiel apareció en escena cuando el humor se limitaba a juegos de palabras y referencias sainetescas. Puso de moda el humor de situación y desarrolló un teatro moderno, cosmopolita, atemporal y altamente original. Creó escuela y, tras él, todos los comediógrafos han seguido su camino, pues ya no había vuelta atrás. Su producción teatral alcanza las 35 obras. Ofrecemos aquí una cuidada selección de las que consideramos las más representativas, no necesariamente las más famosas, pero sí las que mejor pueden dar ...

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the pretérito perfecto compuesto, one of the Spanish verb forms displaying the greatest variation in use. The study discusses its temporal, aspectual and modal dimensions and argues that the perfect tense used in the Romance languages can be understood as a temporal category expressing both simultaneity and anteriority. Finally, the author analyzes the different dialectal forms used in today’s Spanish.

A professional Mexican movie critic provides a dual perspective on Mexican contemporary cinema--artistic excellence and pretentiousness--in a study that reviews both commercial productions as well as independent works.