Tres poetas del exceso

"Once upon a time there was a brave little silver colored fish. He swam around in the big blue sea and came upon a very large black object. What happens next and how it finishes, is what this book is about!"

El periodista Stephen O'shea nos presenta un ilustrador cuadro de la Francia medieval, así como una evocación de otra época que lleva a pensar que la intolerancia religiosa es intemporal. Radicales en sus ideas y dotados de una profunda espiritualidad, los cátaros rechazaban el materialismo, trataban como iguales a las mujeres, aceptaban la diferencia de credo, defendían el amor libre y afirmaban que el infierno no existía. Pero sobre todo, estos rebeldes pusieron en entredicho la autoridad de la Iglesia y su concepción del bien y del mal, provocando con ello que se tambaleara el...

This is a collection of 29 essays from many of the world's top scholars to honor their beloved and influential colleague and mentor, Frederick A. de Armas. The essays are grouped into the categories "Studies in CalderÓn," "Iberian Stages," "Reading the Siglo de Oro: Poetry and Prose," and "Don Quixote."

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...