Simón Bolívar en el Infierno de Dante

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.

This study breaks new ground in García Márquez studies by focusing on the author's journalistic writings between 1948 and 1955. By using a combination of modern critical methods, including narratology, dialogism and transtextuality, this study shows how García Márquez' early journalism laid the foundations for his later fiction writing. This work provides an exhaustive, coherent and comprehensive analysis of a neglected area of the Colombian author's writing. This study shows that García Márquez is a bigeneric writer, a journalist-fiction writer, who constantly combines genres in his...

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

El nuevo libro de artículos de Javier Marías. Una mirada incómoda, certera y brillante sobre la sociedad de hoy. Este volumen reúne los noventa y cinco artículos publicados por Javier Marías en el suplemento dominical El País Semanal entre el 3 de febrero de 2019 y el 24 de enero de 2021. «Han caducado los tiempos en que la gente se tomaba en serio la promesa hecha, la palabra dada, que todavía los niños de mi infancia llamaban “palabra de honor”. Somos una sociedad “desenfadada” y además lo tenemos a gala (bueno, en todo lo demás muy enfadada)», dice Javier Marías en...