Magia y Eros en Wagner y Shakespeare

Fourteen critical essays on Carlos Rojas, one of the leading contemporary Spanish novelists, and winner of the Premio Nacional de Literatura, the Premio Planeta and the Premio Nadal. A study of characterization, symbolism, time, magic, and death, makes this the most important and comprehensive examination of Rojas' outstanding novelistic contributions

A beautiful metaphor about the history of mankind. Birds represent the ambitions of the people. Good intentions become perverted; but a gleam of hope shines on the horizon.

The central component of this study is an index of the numerous motifs through which topoi of the text as symbol are articulated in the religious poetry, sermons, and sacramental plays of Golden Age Spain. Paired with the index is an anthology of the texts on which the book is based. In her introduction, Louise Salstad discusses the transmission and transformation of the topoi as they appear in the Old and New Testaments, classical literature, church writings, and medieval texts, and she considers the influence of the contemporary milieu on the shaping of these motifs. The book also includes...

Descubre la plasticidad de Japón de la mano de Murakami. A través de la visión de uno de los especialistas en literatura japonesa, Carlos Rubio, el lector conocerá y descubrirá aspectos de la cultura japonesa y de la sociedad actual. ¿El Japón de Murakami o el Murakami de Japón? La historia de la cultura japonesa ha demostrado cierta habilidad para plasmar unos valores, una sensibilidad, una sustancia, unos significados reconocidos como característicamente nipones. Haruki Murakami no es una excepción a esa tendencia porque en cada una de las páginas de sus novelas está Japón; se...