Tedio y otros cuentos

En esta edición especial de Pestilencia y Muerte, estos dos amigos deciden viajar a la ciudad del 'caloret', y todo ello para pasar unas fiestas inolvidables que por circunstancias del destino, se volverán en una pesadilla.

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.

El presente trabajo pretende acompañar esa búsqueda walshiana. Presentaré en primer lugar un breve panorama histórico, para hacer inteligibles ciertos rasgos de la biografía y la producción literaria del autor. A continuación, reseñaré las principales líneas de lectura de Operación masacre presentes en la literatura crítica, desde su primera publicación hasta la actualidad. Para finalmente abocarme al análisis e interpretación del texto, siguiendo las divisiones que lo organizan. Luego de las conclusiones y de la bibliografía, incluyo un anexo con una entrevista realizada en...

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...