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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."

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...

Los cuentos de Dostoievski son una lección sobre las pasiones del hombre y la sociedad que le rodea. En estos, el lector encontrará la misma grandeza de sus novelas, aunque con mayor agudeza, así como su característica vena humorística e irónica, su sarcasmo frente a la tragedia y su miedo a lo desconocido y a la muerte. Escritos entre 1845 y 1877, cuando comenzó la redacción de "Los hermanos Karamazov", los relatos aparecen de manera cronológica con el fin de observar el cambio paulatino de sus temas y formas. Así, los seguidores del escritor ruso, encontrarán aquí, entre otros,...

A group of thirty chronicles that Fabrizio Meja Madrid spun along thirteen years while strolling up and down the national territory, from the forest to the desert, from the mountains to the highlands, to end, like so many other Mexicans every year, crossing the northern frontier. New drugs, saints with beatified roosters, murderers of one night and of one life, communards with "machetes" and teachers surrounding the foreigner murdered in Oaxaca, a town of kidnappers and three missing towns, the television that presents circus phenomena, the fantasies of the national porn, the corpses of too...