Estudiando a Julio Ramón Ribeyro

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...

Seis ensayos fundamentales de la obra de Grossman. Escribir en la oscuridad reúne seis ensayos en los que Grossman analiza con maestría y lucidez extraordinaria algunos de los temas centrales en su producción artística: las voces literarias que han ayudado a construir su obra, el Holocausto, la creación del Estado de Israel o los problemas derivados del mismo como marco de sus creaciones; el conflicto en Oriente Próximo y los devastadores efectos que provoca en la sociedad israelí, sometida a un consenso interior asfixiante, así como la incertidumbre acerca del futuro que ilustra el...

"De las más de 10.000 especies de aves que hay en el mundo, este libro recoge 80: desde el pingüino al colibrí, de la golondrina al mirlo, de la lechuza al pelícano"--

Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have to be opened up by innovative TransArea Studies which generate a new vision of entangled and connected histories and multi-, inter- and transcultural developments. The vectorization of all kinds of knowledge is on the agenda: the movements of the past are still present in the movements of today. Could there be a better field for this theoretical shift than the Caribbean, one of the outstanding producers of...