El jardín de las delicias

A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...

La literatura es una actividad recreativa con la que buscamos disfrutar de una experiencia estética, igual que cuando vemos una película en el cine y después nos vamos de cañas para comentarla. Ahora bien, dado que la literatura es una manifestación artística valiosa y milenaria, existe la necesidad de estudiarla. Por eso, a veces, puede parecer que es algo frío, carente de interés o, incluso, aburrido. Para evitar este problema, este manual propone un acercamiento accesible a la literatura, desde la curiosidad y la cercanía. Se trata de mostrar la actualidad que aún tienen en...

The story of a small French town during the 19th century. When a beautiful young woman moves into an old run down house, strange things start to happen.

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...