El goce de las olas

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...

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

In Las hojas que caen tells her own childhood story: that of a Chinese girl who suffers the abandonment of her stepmother and even her own family. Her determination to survive enables her to overcome experiences in her life which would have destroyed any human being.

Los trabajos reunidos en este libro son versiones más extensas de las exposiciones leídas en el homenaje a Juan José Arreola organizado por El Colegio de México con motivo del gozoso centenario de su nacimiento. Sobre este escritor mexicano, Jorge Luis Borges dijo: “Nació en México en 1918. Pudo haber nacido en cualquier lugar y en cualquier siglo”. Al aludir la ubicuidad de Arreola, Borges implicaba lo que algunos definirían como la universalidad de su literatura. Con ese tono entre irónico y juguetón tan suyo, Arreola describía así su amor por la literatura: “Mis...