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La hija del capitán es una novela histórica aunque narre hechos prácticamente contemporáneos a la vida de Pushkin. La obra está considerada como una de las mejores de la literatura rusa y, en palabras de Gogol, 'la pureza y la simplicidad alcanzan tal altura, que la verdad misma parece artificial y caricaturesca.

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...

Published in 1921, "Belarmino y Apolonio" probably is the best novel written by the Spanish Asturias-born writer Ramon Perez de Ayala, and certainly a most significant one among those published during the so-called Spanish culture Silver Age (1898-1936). According to the French hispanist critic Jean Cassou "Belarmino y Apolonio" should be considered one of the most important novels in Spanish literature, second only to "El Quijote." The novel appears at first sight to be a story that could be classified as "costumbrismo" or even romantic pulp fiction: the forbidden love between a young...

La brevedad de su vida impidió a Lucano completar y pulir su epopeya, lo cual no ha impedido que fuera admirado por san Agustín, Dante, Petrarca, Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, Gracián, Shelley y Goethe. El cordobés Marco Anneo Lucano (39-65 d.C.), nieto de Séneca el Viejo y sobrino del Joven, se educó en Roma con el estoico Cornuto, y fue admitido por Nerón en su círculo durante un tiempo, hasta que perdió el favor del emperador por motivos desconocidos y probablemente caprichosos. Se le prohibió escribir poesía y ejercer la abogacía. Él a su vez escarneció a Nerón y...