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This is the first modern edition and critical study of a dramatic courtly tale from 1655 by a forgotten woman writer of Spain's Golden Age. The extensive introduction and notes serve to restore the work to the literary history of its period and to relate it to contemporary tales by Lope de Vega, María de Zayas, and other masters of fiction after Cervantes.

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.

Las razones éticas del realismo tiene por objeto primero la reconstrucción de la corta vida de Revista Española, una publicación alentada por Antonio Rodríguez-Moñino entre 1953 y 1954 y dirigida por Ignacio Aldecoa, Alfonso Sastre y Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio en la que se da cita buena parte del llamado grupo madrileño de narradores del medio siglo: Carmen Martín Gaite, Josefina Rodríguez, José María de Quinto, Medardo Fraile, además de los citados responsables, y otros autores tan notorios como Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Juan Benet, Manuel Sacristán o José Luis Castillo-Puche. En...

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...