Lecturas contemporáneas de tres clásicos: María, Cien años de soledad y Que viva la música

"In August 1592, a sheriff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Fray Juan de la Cruz, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, who died the year before, to his final abode in Segovia. When they find him 'incorrupt and as fresh as when he died,' there is an ecstatic fervor for the friar's body...all kinds of adventures and misfortunes happen, with characters that seem to be drawn from mythological deeds. The story told by Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully intertwines with the friar's verses, as if they had prophesied the delirium...

Dos escritos de gran interés sobre materia mitológica, uno de carácter hermenéutico-interpretativo acerca de Homero y el otro una compilación de los más variados mitos relacionados con metamorfosis. Se ofrecen aquí dos escritos sobre materia mitológica, uno de carácter hermenéutico-interpretativo y el otro una compilación de los más variados mitos relacionados con metamorfosis. Con Alegorías de Homero, el autor se propone defender a Homero de sus detractores, y ve en la interpretación alegórica la mejor estrategia defensiva, que ya había tenido sus precursores en el siglo VI...

In Spanish. This representative selection of Spanish literature from the twelfth to the seventeenth century provides a coherent study of full-length works rather than isolated remnants. These carefully chosen selections portray those persons and events of literary or historical significance that best illustrate the evolution of Spains national character. English aids and an extensive vocabulary list achieve a comprehensive picture for the reader so as to facilitate an understanding of the robust nature of the Spanish language. Explanatory footnotes are plentiful throughout the book. The...

El Alumno focuses on the relationship between a preceptor, his intelligent and quirky disciple his family. The author guides us with exquisite skill toward an ending as unexpected as masterful. The tone of the work, strongly emotional, reaches certain passages in the dignity of the old Greek tragedies.