HIPÓCRITA DE A DIARIO

The book offers an in-depth, critical appreciation of seven major Spanish poets. Emphasis is on the modern period, with five of the poets being twentieth-century poets. It is argued that the roots of modern poetry are to be found in Romanticism's anguished search for meaning. The seven Spanish poets include Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti.

Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. Rising to prominence with One Hundred Years of Solitude, his fiction is widely read and studied throughout the world. This invaluable Guide gives a wide-ranging but in-depth survey of the global debate over García Márquez's fiction. It explores the major critical responses to his key works, devoting two whole chapters to One Hundred Years of Solitude. It also examines García Márquez's lesser-known short fiction, his place in the Boom, magical realism and his influence on other writers. Jay...

A mediados del siglo xv, una disputa territorial entre el papado y la Corona de Aragón produce la obra intelectual que dará paso al Humanismo: la Refutación de la Donación de Constantino. El autor, Lorenzo Valla, cumpliendo un encargo del rey Alfonso el Magnánimo, demuestra en un discurso sublime la falsedad de la Donación de Constantino, documento esgrimido por la Iglesia para declararse beneficiaria de la donación territorial del viejo emperador romano.

Indagación de la literatura cubana desde los textos precursores de Antonio Bachiller y Aurelio Mitjans hasta las valoraciones consumadas de Cintio Vitier y Roberto Fernández Retamar. La crítica de este discurso le permite a Rojas advertir los cruces y desencuentros de tres cánones literarios: el nacional cubano, el regional latinoamericano y el universal occidental.