Exilios femeninos

Presenting the work of Miguel de Unamuno and Albert Camus as paradigmatic, the present study examines the significance and function of the -tragic- in a modern context, using a historical, socio-political approach. This approach permits the tragic to be seen as a product of specific historical circumstances, rather than as a fundamental, metaphysical aspect of the human condition, first revealed in Greek Tragedy and still evident today. In addition, a connection is made between Unamuno's and Camus's controversial political positions taken at the end of their lives and their insistence upon a...

El Padre Francesco Sacchini (1570-1625) fue un destacado miembro de la Compañía, de la que llegó a ser Secretario General. Es bien conocido por haber redactado varios volúmenes de la primera Historia oficial de dicha Orden religiosa. No obstante, siempre consideró que su auténtica vocación era la enseñanza, por lo que compuso dos manuales destinados a los jesuitas que la ejercían en las aulas de los niños más pequeños. Presentamos en este volumen la segunda traducción que se realiza de ellos (la primera y única hasta ahora se publicó en alemán a finales del siglo XTX). Se...

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.

An anthology of short stories from the Caribbean region that is unique in its trilingual nature; all of the stories appear in English, French and Spanish. The anthology includes stories from Guadeloupe (Gisele Pineau), Trinidad ( Shani Mootoo), Haiti (Yanick Lahens), Jamaica (Oliver Senior), Puerto Rico (Carmen Lugo Filippi ) and Cuba (Mirta Yanez).