El requeté que gritó Gora Euskadi

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

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."

Desde la lejana Cilicia, Cicerón asiste a los episodios finales del derrumbe del régimen republicano. La inminente guerra civil, la amenaza de los partos y en menor medida, sus asuntos domésticos son asuntos que inquietan y ocupan la correspondencia que el de Arpino mantiene con su amigo Atico.

Componen este libro seis ensayos que se ocupan de examinar el tratamiento del mar en diferentes periodos de la literatura española y en autores concretos en cuyas obras el mar ha adquirido especial relevancia y significado. El recorrido abarca desde las cantigas galaico-portuguesas a la poesía contemporánea e indaga en seis visiones sobre la conceptualización del mar en la literatura hispánica, tomando como referencia central la importancia del mar en uno de los libros centrales de Juan Ramón Jiménez: Diario de un poeta recién casado.