Semiótica deportiva

Un tipo que se ve reflejado en un programa de confesiones nocturnas en la radio, un muchacho perdidamente enamorado de su hermana, un buscador del Santo Grial que se aferra a una sospecha para salvar a su hijo, un hombre atraído por la necesidad de entender el horror nazi, un adolescente que se enfrenta aterrado a su sexualidad en tiempos de Mussolini, una mujer que inventa una vida para no morir de dolor... Todos los personajes que transitan los cuentos de El Estadio de Mármol son seres desubicados, gente perdida o desorientada sometida al arbitrio de circunstancias ajenas. Todos los...

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called the first Latin American novel. Don Catrín is three things at once: a rakish pícaro in the tradition of the picaresque; a catrín, a dandy or fop; and a criollo, a person born in the New World and belonging to the same dominant class as their Spanish-born parents but relegated to a secondary status. The novel interrogates then current ideas about the supposed innateness of race and...

Excerpt from Obras Completas del Doctor D. Manuel Mila y Fontanals, Catedratico Que Fue de Literatura en la Universidad de Barcelona, Vol. 4: Opusculos Literarios Viaje por la Rusia meridional y la Crimea, etc., por el principe Demidoff, traducido por D. J uan Cortada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing...

A model source study and an outstanding contribution to a better understanding and a greater appreciation of the serranilla, one of the most interesting expressions of medieval lyric poetry.