Introducción al estudio de la literatura hispanoamericana

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.

Eugenia. Esbozo novelesco de costumbres futuras (1919) fue la obra que inauguró el género de la ciencia ficción en México. Escrita por el autor cubano-mexicano Eduardo Urzaiz Rodríguez, la trama se sitúa en la ciudad ficcional de Villautopía, que evoca a la ciudad mexicana de Mérida, en el año 2218. A través de los ojos de la protagonista, Celiana, conocemos la transformación del mundo en los últimos siglos, con una sociedad que ha incorporado los avances tecnológicos a su vida cotidiana (como lo son los trenes y aviones ultra veloces, así como diminutas máquinas de escritura), ...

Fray Luis de Len (1527-91) is known chiefly as the author of some of the finest poetry of the Spanish Golden Age, but he also wrote important prose works in both Latin and Spanish, and produced eloquent translations into Spanish of biblical and classical texts. He spent five years imprisoned in solitary confinement by the Spanish Inquisition, fighting to clear himself of a series of accusations against his views on the Bible. Acquitted on all counts, he returned to teach at the University of Salamanca. This book examines the controversies in which Fray Luis was caught up, and investigates the ...

Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.