Introducción al "Quijote"

This book collects for the first time a compendium of poems written in English by brigadists, sanitary personnel and journalists that participated or were involved in the Spanish Civil War, as well as by intellectuals, writers and journalists that supported the republican cause from the outside. The anthology starts from a previous historical framework in which this poetic legacy has been contextualized, to know where, when, how and why these poems were written, and who wrote them or who were their protagonists. All these analyses have served to understand the causes of why this poetic legacy ...

Una mosca se paseaba contenta y despreocupada por el bosque, cuando de pronto apareció una araña que se la comió. Luego la araña es comida.. y luego por... ¡Ufff!

Desde finales del siglo XV hasta el ocaso de los Austrias, Roma fue una ciudad estrechamente vinculada a España, que mantuvo una importantísima colonia permanente: embajadores, militares, mercaderes, cortesanos, mecenas y artistas españoles residieron en Roma con los más diversos intereses políticos, económicos y culturales. Thomas J. Dandelet, profesor de la Universidad de Berkeley, ha llevado a cabo, a partir de un extraordinario trabajo de documentación, el primer estudio de las relaciones entre la ciudad eterna y el pujante imperio español durante un período crucial de la...

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...