Lo real y lo imaginario. Ensayos literarios

«Este libro es la prolongación literal de otro que publiqué en 1997, Mano de sombra. Si aquel volumen recogía ciento cuatro artículos, correspondientes a dos años de tarea, el presente reúne veinticuatro meses más de opiniones sin cuento... Me despedí entonces diciendo que al releer todas las piezas seguidas había tenido la impresión de haber opinado demasiado. Así que imagínense ahora, tras otras ciento cuatro. No sé cómo nadie consiente, tras tanto tiempo, que le siga reventando los domingos.» Así dice Javier Marías en el preámbulo a Seré amado cuando falte. Pero quizá...

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 ...

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Este libro constituye un ensayo a la búsqueda del sentido de los textos de Lorca, especialmente en el teatro, encuadrándolo fundamentalmente en el contexto histórico de su producción: el momento radical-democrático que propició el frentepopulismo en el período final de la IIa República española