Los reyes distantes/ The distant kings

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

Autor, entre muchos otros libros de A imagen y semejanza, el poeta y critico Saul Yurkievich reune en este tomo un conjunto de lucidos ensayos sobre una de las obras mas ricas de la literatura mundial de este siglo. Desde la propuesta metodologica de Teoria del tunel y alternando los relatos (forma de literatura cerrada) con la novela y el ensayo (forma abiertas, para Cortazar), Yurkievich analiza didacticamente una labor solo implicitamente vinculada a la vida del Gran Cronopio. Y, como en todos sus aportes criticos, Yurkievich une, en este, el analisis a la poetica propia, ambos marcados...

Este libro es una lectura rápida y concisa de los eventos ocurridos en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Escrita en un lenguaje sencillo y ameno para el lector, ayudará en la comprensión de los hechos y participantes principales.

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