Relatos carnavalescos

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Un ensayo fundamental sobre la melancolía en el Siglo de Oro español, clave para entender su presencia en la Europa moderna. La melancolía, que recorre la historia del mundo hasta nuestros días, es uno de los ejes fundamentales de la cultura renacentista y barroca, e impregna las obras de autores como Shakespeare o Montaigne. Ensayistas como Panofsky, Kristeva o Starobinski la han estudiado desde diversos ángulos, pero conceden escasa o nula atención a su relevancia en el Siglo de Oro español. Es precisamente en este periodo y escenario en el que Roger Bartra centra su atención. El...

Les aventures de Robinson Crusoe comencen un dia en el qual el protagonista, desobeint la voluntat del seu pare, que vol que estudiï lleis, decideix acompanyar un amic en un viatge per mar. Aquesta primera experiència desperta en el jove ànsies per conèixer món: Robinson s'embarcarà en diferents expedicions. En un d'aquets periples, el vaixell mercant en qual viatja naufraga i el jove mariner és l'únic supervivent. Perdut en una illa deserta, haurà de sobreviure a les necessitats més elementals de la vida i superar nombroses adversitats: tempestes, fam i, sobretot, solitud. Una...

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...