La mujer: de los bastidores al proscenio en el teatro del siglo XVI

A collection of poems, including "The Massacre," "No Harm Shall Come," "Touched," "Evensong," and "Amberose Triste"

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

Un político sin pelos en la lengua y un líder incombustible con más de sesenta años de trayectoria. Fraga podía ser sorprendente: «Yo pude ser Fidel Castro.» No le importaba ser polémico: «El orgullo gay es un error social .» Y gastaba un verbo florido: «Las paridades son paridas.» ¿Quién no recuerda su célebre frase «La calle es mía.» o las palabras con que pasó a José María Aznar el testigo como líder del PP: «No hay tutelas ni tutías»? Y qué decir de su mítico eslogan para promover la industria turística, «Spain is different?» El talento de Manuel Fraga para...

Offers detailed analyses and reconstructions of Picon's eight novels. Of special significance to modern readers are his conceptions of Spanish history and character, patriotism, and women and sex -- conceptions that for their day may be considered advanced.