República de la impunidad

First published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes was destined to beget a whole new genre, the so-called picaresque novel. Its great popularity may be attributed largely to its daring autobiographical form, which allows the reader to observe the magnificent, conquering Spain of Charles the Fifth through the inner consciousness of a humble figure called Lazarus, whose name, perhaps, comes from the poor leper mentioned in the Gospels. The Lazarillo is the first literary expression of a feeling basic to the very existence of the Spanish people, especially since the fifteenth century: they were what...

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Constantinopla, de Edmondo De Amicis, es el mejor de los libros escritos sobre Estambul en el siglo XIX. Orhan Pamuk, (Estambul, ciudad y recuerdos), Premio Nobel de Literatura 2006.

Esta obra, excepcional en literatura hagiográfica, nos brinda los hechos sin comentarios superfluos, con un poder de evocación y una llama sobrenatural que nos muestra la acción continua de Dios. "Desde el seminario quedé impresionado por la figura del Cura de Ars, sobre todo, por la lectura de su biografía, escrita por Monseñor Trochu". Juan Pablo II La aldea de Ars está a 35 km de Lión. El Rdo. Vianney llegaba procedente de Ecully, en cuya parroquia había sido coadjutor. Al acercarse a la aldea, era tanta la niebla, que el santo cura se extravió. Encontró a unos niños que...