Lo real y lo imaginario. Ensayos literarios

"Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a ...

En este libro, tan breve como suculento, René Guénon corrige los errores de quienes no habían hecho sino entrever el sentido profundo de la obra de Dante y, a la vez, proporciona una explicación enteramente nueva de múltiples puntos que los exegetas del autor de La divina comedia jamás habían podido resolver de forma satisfactoria. Sin la pretensión de ser exhaustivo sobre un tema que podría resultar inagotable, Guénon proyecta así una luz inesperada sobre un aspecto de la obra de Dante que es propiamente esotérico e iniciático. Dante fue, sin duda, algo muy distinto al genio...

Su amor fue tan intenso como su forma de vida. Niema y Dallas eran agentes especiales y hacían trabajos para diversas entidades, principalmente la CIA. Llevaban unos meses casados cuando aceptaron una peligrosa misión en Irán. Algo salió mal y, para salv

Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the "New Irish." In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary ethnic and immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now-closed Sin-é Café in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors, and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs of both the New Irish and...