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El autor, a partir de su inmersión en la Andalucía medieval, especialmente en la Sevilla y Córdoba de los siglos X-XIII, ha investigado las relaciones que podrían existir entre nuestros grandes poetas de los Siglos de Oro y la lírica arabigoandaluza. Relaciones sorprendentes en poetas como Góngora o Soto de Rojas; pero especialmente llamativas en el caso del sevillano Fernando de Herrera, tan unido tradicionalmente a la poesía de los trovadores y de poetas como Ausías March.

"Lo primero que es necesario reconfirmar, al acabar de leer este libro de relatos, es que Fabio Martínez es un escritor, un animal moribundo –para parafrasear a ese otro animal moribundo, Philip Roth–; es decir, es un hombre que imagina, recuerda y de ello hace ficciones. La imaginación de Martínez, de forma evidente, tiene que ver con su tiempo, el tiempo de su formación sentimental e intelectual de la Cali de los años setenta, primordialmente, y la de los ochenta en su viaje de aprendizaje a Europa. De ambas experiencias y, por supuesto, de sus lecturas preferidas y de su mirada a...

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

Kennedy Waters lives in a world where vengeful spirits kill, ghosts keeps secrets, and a devil walks among the people...a devil she unwittingly liberated. Now Kennedy and the other members of the Legion must hunt it down. As she learns more about the Legion and the Illuminati, she begins to understand that her family hides the biggest mystery. With the clock ticking down and the life of someone she loves hanging by a thread, she must ask herself what in her past has left her unmarked.