Segundos

San Petersburgo, su luz, sus casas y sus avenidas son el escenario de esta apasionada novela. En una de esas noches blancasque se dan en la ciudad rusa durante la época del solsticio de verano, un joven solitario e introvertido narra cómo conoce de forma accidental a una muchacha a la orilla del canal. Tras el primer encuentro, la pareja de desconocidos se citará las tres noches siguientes, noches en las que ella, de nombre Nástenka, relatará su triste historia y en las que harán acto de presencia, de forma sutil y envolvente, las grandes pasiones que mueven al ser humano: el amor, la...

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...

This book, conceived as a tribute to Prof. Antonio Ramírez de Verger on the occasion of his retirement, contains a brief outline of his academic career, a complete list of his publications and a wide selection of his articles, reviews and book chapters published over four decades. These writings examine a variety of authors, such as Fronto, Corippus, Maximianus, Tibullus, Horace, Virgil, Tacitus, Catullus, Propertius, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Ovid and Martial, and they also include contributions on various philological topics. El libro, concebido como homenaje al Prof. Ramírez de Verger...

El amor como imperativo de exelencia es un movimiento de fidelidad a sí mismo y a las cosas. Es lo que para Ortega significa la definición platónica del amor como un "deseo de engendrar belleza", la aspiración al ser en plenitud, al ser en forma. Eso es lo que constituye el ideal de cada cosa, y no es exclusivamente nuestro.