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La gran fuerza imaginativa y la fascinante variedad de los argumentos de Poe explican la gran audiencia de este autor entre los lectores de todas las lenguas. Nadie ha sabido describir más minuciosamente el miedo, analizar y hacer sentir con más intensida

The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's...

Una celebración de los lugares de encuentro en la literatura, y de la literatura como lugar de encuentro. «Desde que el mundo es mundo la autoridad ha tratado de controlar el espacio donde nos reunimos y encontramos. Momentos de vernos, hablar, tejer complicidades y pensar en qué podemos llegar a ser y hacer juntos. Si toda reunión tiene algo de rebeldía esta antología de textos propone un paseo por las insurrecciones silenciosas, aparentemente aisladas, de la lectura.» Del prólogo de Gonzalo Torné Con textos de: Jane Austen, Omar Jayam, Robert Louis Stevenson, Emmy Hennings, Joan...

Damián Tabarovsky launches a broadside against the state of modern Argentinean literary culture in this harsh, belligerent critique. There are few the author doesn’t take to task; he rails against the market and academic institutions for concerning themselves only with profit and against authors of supposedly “high” literature who have abandoned experimentation in search of a greater audience. What Tabarovsky proposes instead is a type of literature that refuses to kowtow to standard conventions of language, plot, and genre—literature that is written with no particular reader in...