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LA MANO QUE ESCRIBE: Literatura, arte y pensamiento FIRST NATIONAL ESSAY AWARD 2008 OF THE PEN CLUB OF PUERTO RICO BY: ZOÉ JIMÉNEZ CORRETJER THE HAND THAT WRITES: Literature, Art and Thought This collection of essays include studies from medieval to contemporary literature in Spain and the Americas. Topics are focused in a philosophical, symbolical, and anthropological perspectives. Some essays cover the history of women philosophers, language and linguistics, sephardic studies, aesthetics, medieval misticism, and feminism... The title of the book was inspired by the special object named...

Con introducción y epílogo de Carmen Giussani, y una semblanza biográfica de Grossman por el autor. «¿Sufre la naturaleza de la persona un cambio, una mutación, en el interior del caldero de la violencia totalitaria? ¿Pierde el deseo, que le es inherente, de ser libre? En la respuesta a esta pregunta está el destino de la persona y del Estado totalitario. [...] La aspiración a la libertad del hombre es indestructible» (Vida y destino, I, 50) «Con Vida y destino se invierte la lógica destructiva propia de los totalitarismos y la imaginación del autor se sitúa a la altura de la...

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...

"Agradezo a todos los participantes de la 2a secciaon del XIV Congreso de la Asociaciaon Alemanes de Hispanistas, celebrado en Ratisbona del 6 al 9 de marzo de 2003, el esguerzo comaun por intentar esbozar tales respuestas, asi como la entrega de sus contribuciones en el plazo convenido."--P. [5].