The Poem of Fernán González

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. ...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this comparative study of a selection of The Arabian Nights stories in a cross-cultural context, brings together a number of disciplines and subject areas to examine the workings of narrative. It predominantly focuses on the ways in which the Arabian Nights have transformed as its stories have travelled across historical eras, cultures, genres and media. Departing from the familiar approaches of influence and textual studies, this book locates its central inquiry in the theoretical questions surrounding the workings of ideology, genre and genre ideology ...

Un apasionado recorrido por obras esenciales de la literatura universal y una invitación su lectura. Existen libros que remiten a otros libros, a otros autores e historias. Son obras de gran calado que invitan a continuar por la senda que trazan con sus reflexiones algunos maestros indiscutibles de la literatura y la crítica. Este es el caso de Costas extrañas, donde el premio Nobel J.M. Coetzee repasa con agudo conocimiento crítico y ternura hacia sus maestros tanto las novelas que le hicieron soñar como los personajes inolvidables que constituyen su memoria de escritor. Desde una...