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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...

El autor de este volumen de ensayos parte de una tesis muy simple, aunque de compleja apariencia. La poesía, el delicado entramado que resume esa palabra, es y ha sido uno de los grandes enigmas de todo tiempo y lugar. A veces vinculada a la magia o a la religión pero también al arte o a la filosofía primera o trascendental. Cultivada o reconocida en ocasiones por pueblos enteros y en otras por apenas pequeños grupos y exiguas minorías de fanáticos lectores, autores y devotos, es difícil pronunciarse acerca de las virtudes que este extraño «conector» o «facilitador» pueda ofrecer ...

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 ...

Con la intencion de ofrecer variedad tematica y formal, esta antologia combina cuentos breves, fragmentos de narraciones mas largas, recuerdos biograficos, anecdotas e incluso poemas. Autores tan disimiles como Pavic y Paul Auster, Moravia y Dylan Thomas, Cortazar y Arreola se dan cita para dar por cierta la definicion de Cabrera Infante: "Literatura es todo lo que se lea como tal."