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Ever inquisitive, Cortázar delves into every aspect of his efforts as a writer, his political restlessness, and personal ups-and-downs. He sums up each day, comments on what he reads, hears and sees, and recounts his adventures as a translator, militant, and human rights advocate. Organized in five volumes that span almost half a century (from 1937 to 1984), this revised edition of “Cortezarian” correspondence includes more than one thousand new letters, fragments suppressed from the fi rst edition and an index with the author’s works and quoted individuals.

Fuentes CARTAS (1883-1887) Índice alfabético de nombres de personas, personajes literarios, lugares y obras citadas

Among the adventures of Odysseus, his encounter with the mysterious goddess Circe, who transforms the hero's companions into swine, has long been a favorite of readers. The combination of magic, metamorphosis, intrigue, seduction, and danger in this episode of the Odyssey make it particularly attractive and thought-provoking, so that many later authors mention or recreate it: Apollonius of Rhodes, Plutarch, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Lope, Calderon, etc. This book analyzes the tradition of the Homeric myth in western literature, from ancient Greece to the present day, with particular attention to...

El dispendio del duque es una novela histórica donde se pone de manifiesto la riqueza, el poder y las debilidades de la nobleza, y en especial de la casa de Medina Sidonia, durante la primera mitad del siglo XVII. Felipe IV, más entusiasmado en los placeres de la carne, en la caza y otros quehaceres mundanos que en la política, delega las tareas del gobierno en su valido, el conde-duque de Olivares, cuya política económica produce, en el concierto de la monarquía hispánica, agudos desequilibrios y despierta conjuras y afanes de independencia. En este convulso contexto, el protagonista...