La muerte de la lengua inglesa

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.

Partiendo de la celebre meditación de John Donne, Nuccio Ordine amplía su "biblioteca ideal" invitándonos a leer--y a releer--más páginas escogidas de la literatura universal. Convencido de que una cita brillante puede despertar la curiosidad del lector y animarlo a leer la obra de la que procede, Ordine continúa su defensa de los clásicos, demostrando que la literatura es fundamental para fomentar el entendimiento y la compasión entre las personas. En una epoca marcada por el individualismo, las terribles desigualdades sociales y económicas, el miedo al "forastero" y el racismo,...

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...

This book presents a panoramic view of contemporary Chilean literature from an aesthetic and ideological perspective in connection with the country's recent history.Offers in-depth interviews with representatives of five generations of Chilean writers