Segundos

Importante obra de referencia sobre el autor sevillano y su principal obra; en este volumen se recopilan las aportaciones de los participantes en el Seminario Internacional sobre Mateo Alemán con motivo del IV Centenario de la Publicación de Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1999).

Este libro afronta la obra toda de Francisco Brines desde la certeza de que no se puede entender su poesía (la razón de su existencia) sin considerarla en su más alto nivel, el del arco total de su escritura. Desde este sencillo pero novedoso planteamiento teórico, se intenta confirmar cómo el estudio aislado de algunos de sus poemas o de alguno de sus libros jamás pudo darnos la clave y el sentido que sólo se manifiestan en el nivel último de esta singular y espléndida construcción poética. La profunda coherencia de la escritura de Brines se fundamenta en una sorprendente...

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 ...

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...