Blanco, de Octavio Paz, o la estética de la evanescencia

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La literatura no ha existido siempre. Los discursos a los que hoy aplicamos el nombre de «literarios» constituyen una realidad histórica que sólo ha podido surgir a partir de una serie de condiciones –asimismo históricas– muy estrictas: las condiciones derivadas del nivel ideológico característico de las formaciones sociales «modernas» o «burguesas» en sentido general. En consecuencia, habrá que preguntarse: ¿qué caracterizaciones concretas otorga el horizonte teórico actual a los discursos literarios? ¿Qué sentido real puede poseer entonces toda esa amplia gama de...

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

La poesía puede nacer como una sensación, un recuerdo, una certeza, una luz, o una sombra que se prolonga en la mente.