De brujos y naguales

Sergio es un crack, un deportista excepcional, tanto si juega a tenis como a fútbol. Pero ha llegado el momento de tomar partido: sabe que tiene que elegir uno y renunciar al otro... Crees que, a los doce años, se puede tomar la decisión que marcará tu futuro para siempre? Puedes equivocarte, o no. Quizá consigas lo que ni siquiera te atreviste a soñar...

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

[SPA] Este texto, titulado «Una transacción de ojos y retratos (La soberbissimice y esta estória de «Os chapéus transeuntes»)», por un lado pretende reflexionar, desde una perspectiva holística, sobre algunos aspectos del conjunto de la obra ficcional de João Guimarães Rosa, que podemos resumir tanto en la dificultad derivada de su pertinaz recreación linguística, carácter renovador y experimentación técnica, como en los diferentes niveles de complejidad resultantes de su ejemplar indagación de lo humano. Por otro lado, a lo largo de estas páginas, también se pretende una...

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....