Fuego en el alma y en la vida infierno

Hablando de Don Juan decía Wenceslao Fernández Flórez que Zorrilla «oía latir bajo su justillo de terciopelo el corazón de España: el corazón del romanticismo nacional, su propio corazón». También la estructura de la obra refleja perfectamente el ideal romántico: el misterio de los personajes, las máscaras, la conquista, la huida, el tenebrismo de la segunda parte, los diálogos amorosos, el enfrentamiento a Dios y la salvación por el amor. Todo coincide en señalar a esta obra como uno de los hitos que marca con mayor precisión el valor de lo sorprendente y de lo emocional...

In this collection of short stories there are issues such as the anxious await by employees for new management that will approve salary increases, the calm awakening of a man on his day off from work, and a woman telling a man that she is the mother of his child. These most simple anecdotes of daily life are reflected with such splendor and vitality through Benedetti’s concise and clear prose.

EL FARO es una obra con una narrativa costumbrismo y mágica, donde la razón basada en la intuición y lo simple, conlleva a que la deducción experimental y popular se manifieste espontáneamente sin preámbulos ni protocolos expuestos por un protagonista del común.

The marquis of Villafria, having squandered his fortune on a dissolute life in Madrid, has had to retire to rural Andalusia, to the town of Villafria, with his young daughter Dona Luz. There he comes under the sway of Don Acisclo, his one-time steward, who, by dint of shrewdness and hard and diligent work, has ended up with the marquis's property, estates, and influence. After the marquis's death, Don Acisclo, his own family grown and living elsewhere, insists that Dona Luz come to live with him. At first she resists, but ultimately yields, because, impoverished as she is and with the cloud...