La vida y su sentido

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...

Excerpt from Principios de Literatura General é Historia de la Literatura Española, Vol. 1: Don Pedro de Alcantara Garcia Aunque se tache de inmodesta nuestra pretension, debemos manifestar con franqueza y lis'í1ra que aspiramos a satisfacer la necesidad y llenar el vacío que antes h'emos publicacion del presente libró con este lo hemos escrito y á 'él hemos. Subordinado su plan y.'desenvolvimiento. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical...

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.

Relatos en los que la palabra, perfectamente conjugada en sus tres tiempos, pretérito, presente y futuro, es la principal protagonista para lograr la magia de la Literatura. A través de escenas del mismo realismo mágico, la autora refleja una realidad cotidiana capaz de atrapar el lector por su forma distinta de narrar y en la que dicha palabra, escrita con la sencillez a la que hace referencia el propio maestro Delibes, adquiere el protagonismo de obra literaria.