Lengua y diccionarios

Acclaimed authors write about the city of Barcelona, Spain, in a collection that features contributions by Paul Auster, Colm Toibin, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Juan Marsé, among others.

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....

Un provocador ensayo sobre la ayuda humanitaria y sus contradicciones, a través de apasionantes experiencias personales. ¿Salvar a los demás para salvarse a uno mismo? Apodado el Pasafronteras a raíz de su entrada ilegal en Zaire, Jordi Raich pasó tres semanas encarcelado en Uganda acusado de espiar para la CIA, estuvo perdido en el desierto somalí con el ejército italiano a la espera de un general que nunca llegó, fue atacado por los heridos que salvó del bombardeado hospital de Vukovar, repartió comida bajo el fuego de morteros rebeldes durante el asedio a Monrovia e hizo jogging...

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 ...