Dos lecturas

Edición anotada y estudio del conjunto de epístolas escritas entre 1621 y 1624 por Lope de Vega y por el erudito segoviano Diego de Colmenares en el marco de la polémica suscitada por el gran eco y éxito que habían obtenido los llamados “poemas mayores” (especialmente el Polifemo y las Soledades) de Luis de Góngora.

En este ensayo, el genial Raymond Chandler critica a los escritores que escriben novelas policiales como si hicieran chorizos, aquellos que han convertido al género policial en el lado B de la literatura. Con su particular humor, Chandler rescata las mejores herramientas para crear algo más profundo que un simple enigma y reivindica la obra de Dashiell Hammett, su autor más admirado, creador de los asesinatos más interesantes del mundo.

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay...

This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure—a journey that took him ...