Estudios sobre lírica antigua

Francisco Calcagno was one of the most prolific authors of Cuban XIX century, and yet one of the less studied by critics and scholars. His novels focused on blacks are nonetheless essential to understand how the creole elites view blacks and the fears they felt about the influence of blacks in a Cuba white and Spaniard. What could it then better than to read Aponte, along with Prof. Moran's insightful introductory study. There we find an excellent balance between history and fiction, archive material and criticism. In Prof. Francisco Moran's skillful hands Calcagno's novel becomes a literary...

Todo parece indicar que este Arte de pagar sus deudas o Manual de Derecho Comercial, publicado anónimamente en 1827, en la imprenta regentada por el propio Balzac, no sea sino una primera versión (escrita en colaboración con su amigo Emile Marco de Saint-Hilaire, escritor especializado luego en la historia de la época napoleónica) del Manual del hombre de negocios (Manuel de l’homme d’affaires par un principal clerc d’avoué et de notaire), un original que el joven (y siempre necesitado de efectivo) Balzac ofreció a finales de 1828 al librero y editor Levavasseur y por el que...

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the rural poor. She is that political poet and more: a poet of philosophical meditation, self-consciousness, and daring. This is a book full of surprises and paradoxes. The complexity and structural boldness of these prose-poems, especially the female-erotic prose pieces of her first book, make them an important moment in the history of literary...

Nos hallamos ante obras de excepcional calidad literaria y musical, por primera vez traducidas y comentadas en castellano, que nos ponen en contacto directo con los centros de cultura más florecientes de los siglos XII y XIII.