¿A dónde van los globos? - Cuentos infantiles

Recopilatorio en un solo volumen de tres cuentos de princesas: - El baúl mágico. - La princesa Jimena. - Lucía la princesa valiente.

Los cuatro textos de este volumen constituyen un hito en el pensamiento contemporáneo por tratarse de una de las primeras tomas de posición ante las tendencias de pesimismo cultural presentes en autores como T. S. Eliot ya a mediados del siglo XX. A partir de su concepto de «poscultura», Steiner formula una serie de réplicas de gran lucidez, belleza y atrevimiento, precisamente en un momento en que este pesimismo reaparece en todo su radicalismo y violencia. La cultura, nueva divinidad del siglo XX, había mostrado su impotencia ante la confianza puesta en ella al constatar que no pudo...

A pathbreaking account of the influence and context of Andalusian life and art in the poetry and drama of Federico Garcia Lorca. Andalusia was the central feature and influence in the life and writings of the twentieth-century author, musician, and artist, Federico Garcia Lorca. Rooted in his native region, which both captivated and shaped him, Lorca maintained that "The better a writer learns how to interpret the landscape, the greater the artist he will be." Blessed with an acute historical sense of a region where the past is both present and enduring, Lorca proved himself sensitive and...

Laura asks her father whether or not various animals fart like people do and he tries to imagine if the animals do or not.

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...