Nietzsche

are downright heart-breaking, and some others are happy events, which they must undergo before setting roots in this country. As in real life, not every immigrant coming to the United States makes it, in this novel; Rosario did, but not her sister, Berta. Some characters in this novel are truly loveable, others quite detestable; all nevertheless are quite human. The reader weeps at times, is angry at times, rejoices at times, but at the close you will find a new meaning for what is meant for a Latina Mistress.

El presente estudio tiene una doble finalidad. La primera consiste en demostrar que El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, la obra suprema de la literatura universal, llena de sabiduría y de erudición clásicas, no pudo ser escrita por el «ingenio lego» Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, tanto por la escasez de sus estudios como por la ajetreada vida que llevó, muy alejada de las características favorecedoras de la creación literaria. La segunda finalidad consiste en la demostración de la autoría de Juan Luis Vives, nuestro primer y más universal humanista, mediante la...

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....

Juan's father, a fisherman, is caught in a storm and returns very ill. Guided by his friend, the Moon, Juan takes a magical trip to the bottom of the sea and recaptures his father's health from an ornery octopus.