Blancanieves rompe el espejo

Dr. Gonzalez gathers in this work an ensemble of the poetry written by women poets in Santo Domingo during the eighties and nineties with a similar Lezamian perspective: relief, focus on sharp features, and yet there is also breadth and unity of comprehension, despite the complexity, or rather, on account of it.

Considerado ya un clásico, agotado y buscado como libro de culto, Las armas y las letras fue en su día algo más: una mirada libre, minuciosa y completa sobre la literatura en la Guerra Civil española. Ahora, coincidiendo con el 25 aniversario de su aparición, Destino publica una edición actualizada y con nuevo prólogo de su autor. "Los estudios sobre la guerra civil y la publicación y rescate de textos originales de los protagonistas siguen creciendo, lo que justifica que vuelvan a añadirse aquí hechos, fotografías inéditas y entrecomillados desconocidos y providenciales", dice...

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...

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.