Antonio Benítez Rojo

What would you do if you found out you only had months to live? In Jenny Downham's debut novel, Tessa must grapple with this situation. This book will make all readers reflect upon the true value of things.

Creadores de Evocación es una colección de artículos sobre relatos cortos publicados en las Islas Británicas en la época contemporánea. En esta edición se han incluido trabajos sobre conocidos representantes de la ficción breve inglesa (J.R.R.Tolkien...), pero también artículos sobre representantes de la narrativa escocesa (A. Gray...), la ficción irlandesa (E. Bowen...) y autores afincados en Gran Bretaña pero cuyos orígenes se extienden hasta las antiguas colonias (S. Rushdie...).

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."

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...