La mujer moderna en los escritos de Federica Montseny

La aventura equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre (1964), basada en la histórica antiepopeya de la expedición capitoneada porun vasco a lo largo del Amazonas, ofrece un amplio y variado espectro de caracteres a la búsqueda de un imposible. Elmítico El Dorado se convierte en el centro vital de unas mentes estremecidas y agitadas que luchan contra sí mismas y contra el universo,plas- mado en una tierra indomable, la selva del Marañón, y enunos monarcas lejanos que recuerdan al dios del abandono. Un discurso exuberante, pleno de matices, ayuda a recrear la atmósfera sobrehumana de la tarumbo...

Winter is coming. Souls' Night draws near. Eostra the Eagle Owl Mage holds the clans in the grip of terror. Torak must leave the Forest and seek her lair in the Mountain of Ghosts, while Renn faces an agonizing decision. Wolf, their faithful pack-brother, must overcome wrenching grief.

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...

An elucidation in Spanish of the dramatic intentions and accomplishments of the two best imitators of the inspired craftsmanship of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, this is the first monograph to be published on Rojas Zorilla and Moreto for at least two decades. Following an introductory section, in which she discusses and compares the differing attitudes and methods of the two dramatists, the author concentrates on their respective achievements in the genres which they practiced with enthusiasm and ability. Among the comedies and serious secular plays selected for analysis are not only their...