La verosimilitud en el Siglo de Oro

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

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...

El destacado ensayista y escritor se ocupa en este libro de reflexionar sobre la obra de autores que resultaron para él, como dice en el título, una "grata compañía". Así, nos introduce a la lectura de Robert Louis Stevenson, en sus diversos registros, incluso al ensayista que reflexiona sobre los alcances de la escritura. Igualmente, Reyes nos comparte su gozo ante autores como Chesterton, Proust, Goethe, Descartes, en lo que constituye un gratificante paseo por la escritura y la lectura.

J.M.G. Le Clézio es un escritor atípico, que ha viajado literariamente por territorios muy distintos. Este estudio se adentra en la década que abarca desde 1963 a 1973, época en la que Le Clézio incorpora a su edificio narrativo una amalgama de filosofías heterogéneas que van desde la filosofía presocrática, pasando por la filosofía zen, hasta llegar a una manera de entender el mundo de signo existencialista que se manifiesta, en el plano formal, en su vinculación al fenómeno del Nouveau roman.