La historia de Gilgamesh

In een Chinees provinciestadje komt in 1979 een groepje mensen in opstand tegen de executie van een jonge afvallige communiste, die na tien jaar gevangenisstraf gek is geworden.

Fernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend...

Reviewers have celebrated this important volume as the first comprehensive critical appraisal of the 1997 Nobel Prize laureate for literature. The volume features an introduction, an extensive annotated bibliography, an index, and Aleixandre's Nobel Prize acceptance lecture.

El relato marroquí en lengua árabe aparece hacia los años cuarenta a partir del desarrollo del ensayo literario, la influencia de la literatura árabe oriental y la aportación occidental. El nuevo género evoluciona a lo largo de la segunda mitad del siglo XX gracias al progresivo perfeccionamiento del uso de las técnicas narrativas, la apertura del abanico temático y la recuperación del legado nacional.Debido a los procesos de aculturación -occidentalización y arabización-, comunes en todo el mundo árabe moderno pero indiscutiblemente más intensos y conflictivos en el Magreb, los ...

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...