La poética del esbozo

This is an essay in which rust and idleness become the first reason and the last sense of life. The new work by Fanadelli tries to answer the questions that obsess its author: Why do we live in such an absolutely hopeless time? How do men squashed by modernity and the archetypal structures of culture can coexist and relate to each other? How do the different paths identify among themselves, how can those of us who surrender the loads that others support identify ourselves and face the world? Ensayo en el que la herrumbre y la vagancia se vuelven el primer motivo y el ltimo sentido de la vida. ...

Revistas literarias mexicanas modernas es una serie publicada por el Fondo de Cultura Económica con el propósito de poner nuevamente en circulación, en ediciones facsimilares, las principales revistas literarias aparecidas en México en la primera mitad del siglo xx. De esta manera el curioso lector y el estudioso de nuestras letras tendrán a su alcance este sector de la literatura nacional de acceso tan difícil y de tanto interés documental. Con el objeto de facilitar su consulta, cada revista va precedida por una presentación y una ficha descriptiva, y cada volumen va provisto de un...

Propuestas para (re)construir una nación explores how Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) imagines and engenders the Spanish nation in her theatrical production staged and/or published between 1898 and 1909. In the aftermath of Spain’s colonial losses, when Spain’s male authors, in a growing mood of collective introspection, directed their attention to the homeland, Pardo Bazán generated a series of theatrical proposals to revitalize the nation. In her plays, she manifests her ideas about Spain’s fin de siècle crisis, reflects on Spain’s place in the international arena (emphasizing...

The story of a small French town during the 19th century. When a beautiful young woman moves into an old run down house, strange things start to happen.