Apuntes literarios de España y América

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 Premio Internacional de Poesía Jovellanos, El Mejor Poema del Mundo, llega a su quinta edición convertido en una gran antología de poesía internacional contemporánea. Fallado el 21 de marzo, coincidiendo con el Día Mundial de la Poesía, proclama el en

Escrita inicialmente por Stevenson para complacer y entretener a su joven hijastro Lloyd Osbourne, y publicada después por entregas en la revista Young Folks, entre 1881 y 1882, bajo el seudónimo de Capitán George North, La isla del tesoro se ha convertido en su ya largo siglo de existencia en el clásico de la literatura de aventuras por excelencia, que ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo a lo largo de cinco generaciones. Jim Hawkins, hijo adolescente del dueño de la posada Admiral Benbow, frente a la solitaria bahía del Cerro Negro, va a experimentar un cambio radical...

A critical edition of the original version of Calderón’s masterpiece, based on the text contained in the Zaragoza Parte (1636). Now republished for the first time since the seventeenth century, the "Zaragoza" version is preceded by a lengthy introductory study in which Ruano offers important evidence and new deductions convincingly to establish that Calderón wrote two versions of La vida es sueño (Life’s a Dream): a first version – the "Zaragoza" play, written probably before 1630 and primarily for performance – and a revised version (1635) for publication in the "Primera parte" of ...