El relato del Uno y el Otro en Henao y Arrubla, Nicolás Gómez Dávila y Gabriel García Márquez

... Y las palabras cervantinas todavía guardan secretos que revelar. Son, al mismo tiempo, las palabras demiúrgicas del primer capítulo del libro –en el que el Quijote se nombra a sí mismo, nombra a su caballo y a su dama como en un Génesis para darse y darles existencia literaria– y son las palabras de Foucault, frágil y único instrumento del que el hombre dispone cuando se apresta a conocer el mundo fenoménico. En la modernidad, el hombre de ciencias, es decir, el que desea conocer, sabe bien que para asumir la realidad que le rodea, y de tal forma conocerla, es necesario pasar...

Irony and humor are the elements that fertilized the ground in Nueve Aguitania, a novel which exposes Mirages, false illusions, and virtual or cyclical possibilities of being. Uncovered are the irritable and frankly amusing dimensions of an absurd business existing in a world even more absurd.

Following studies by Goodman, Waley, and Darst, this new study of Garcilaso's work rejects as unfounded the traditional readings of Garcilaso's poetry based on the idea of sincerity and the poet's frustrated love for the Portuguese lady-in-waiting Isabel Freire. In place of the much-abused concept of sincerity, Heiple argues that the intellectual currents of the Renaissance are much more important for the analysis of Garcilaso's poetry. He analyzes in Garcilaso's poetry the uses of Renaissance concepts of mythology, poetic style, theories of love, primitivism, and iconological traditions....

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...