Emily Dickinson

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."

La novela fantástica más prestigiosa de Japón. Ha sido versionada al manga, anime y a los videojuegos. La vida del joven Wataru es un desastre: No es muy popular en el colegio, apenas habla con su padre, su madre es muy estricta y para colmo, las chicas se burlan de él porque no cree en fantasmas. Desesperado, buscará la manera de cambiar su vida, de alterar su destino. Para lograrlo, se adentrará en el mundo mágico de Visión, una tierra habitada por extrañas criaturas que conviven con los humanos. Su objetivo es la Torre del Destino, donde le aguarda la Diosa. Sólo cuando haya...

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...