El signo del centauro

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...

Mario Vargas Llosa se adentra en la novela Los Miserables desde la perspectiva del lector agudo, del entusiasta, del creador que sabe cómo se construye una gran obra. Encontramos así los secretos mecanismos que movieron la pluma de Victor Hugo para crear la gran novela romántica francesa. ¿Quién fue Victor Hugo? La tentación de lo imposible no es un libro que trata sobre otro libro. Mario Vargas Llosa no se deja nublar por las palabras y desvela las claves con las que el narrador francés dejó constancia de su creación. Nos descubre esas huellas que hablan de un Victor Hugo escritor,...

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...

El presente libro reúne diversos ensayos y cartas, inéditos hasta la fecha en español, en los que Shelley plasmó sus ideas sobre literatura, filosofía, arte y moral, y que ofrecen una precisa panorámica de sus preocupaciones en estas materias, las cuales también se encuentran en el trasfondo de su poesía. Los textos aquí recogidos, escritos con una prosa incisiva y melódica que predispone al lector a sentir toda la carga emocional de su obra literaria, resultan imprescindibles para entender el pensamiento europeo del Romanticismo.