Cuerpo a Diario

This novel is unique in the time period. Written in Spanish, by a French author, and published in Paris, the title (Deceits of this World) relates to a well-established genre wherein literature and morality were intertwined. Loubayssin writes with irony and wit. It is delicately erotic, a feature that cannot be found in its Spanish counterparts, due to the repressive censorship in Spain at that time. - In Spanish.

En 1984 Beatriz Sarlo dictó por primera vez la materia Literatura Argentina II en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UBA. Comenzaban los años de la primavera alfonsinista, cuando volvían a la universidad intelectuales y profesores que habían estado en el exilio o habían atravesado la dictadura sosteniendo la discusión política y teórica puertas adentro, en grupos de estudio y en revistas; cuando docentes y estudiantes modificaron el plan de la carrera de Letras, buscando otros modos de reflexionar sobre la literatura, la crítica, la lingüística, la lengua y la cultura...

Guillermo Sheridan realiza un trabajo de reconstrucción literario-histórica del surgimiento, desarrollo y apogeo del grupo literario de los Contemporáneos, entre quienes destacan Xavier Villaurrutia, Carlos Pellicer, Gilberto Owen, Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano y José Gorostiza.

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...