The Unity of Plutarch's Work

Escritos de un insomne es un volumen compuesto por columnas y ensayos, que aborda casi diez años del pensamiento del escritor y editor Damián Tabarovsky. A pesar de la pluralidad de temas, obras y autores que contiene, existe una pregunta que se reitera y ata estos escritos: quizá decimos realmente cuando afirmamos que toda literatura es política. Ante esa afirmación, Tabarovsky nos devuelve a la frase una y otra vez, que se vuelve problema y pregunta: ¿toda literatura es política? Contrario a cualquier forma de totalitarismo y a los eslóganes que pueblan gran parte del triste...

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to the work of Galician jongleur Martin Codax and the Vindel Parchment. This medieval manuscript with the texts of seven cantigas de amigo by Martin Codax and the music score of six of them, is a philological gem that underwent numerous vicissitudes. The current volume comprises eighteen chapters dealing in depth with Codax's work and the Vindel Parchment from five basic perspectives: literature; linguistics, codicology and ecdotics; music; history and reception of the Vindel Parchment; and the historical...

An elucidation in Spanish of the dramatic intentions and accomplishments of the two best imitators of the inspired craftsmanship of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, this is the first monograph to be published on Rojas Zorilla and Moreto for at least two decades. Following an introductory section, in which she discusses and compares the differing attitudes and methods of the two dramatists, the author concentrates on their respective achievements in the genres which they practiced with enthusiasm and ability. Among the comedies and serious secular plays selected for analysis are not only their...

Past and present intermix in this intriguing novel in which a murderer remembers from jail the crimes he committed when he was young. In the past, the Zaragosa police follow the trail of a serial killer who removes the eyes of his victims. At the head of the investigation is German Goitia, a young policeman with a dark past. As he tracks the first serial killer of his career, Goitia uncovers secrets that might prevent him from investigating a killer ever again.