Mártires y anticristos

Les aventures de Robinson Crusoe comencen un dia en el qual el protagonista, desobeint la voluntat del seu pare, que vol que estudiï lleis, decideix acompanyar un amic en un viatge per mar. Aquesta primera experiència desperta en el jove ànsies per conèixer món: Robinson s'embarcarà en diferents expedicions. En un d'aquets periples, el vaixell mercant en qual viatja naufraga i el jove mariner és l'únic supervivent. Perdut en una illa deserta, haurà de sobreviure a les necessitats més elementals de la vida i superar nombroses adversitats: tempestes, fam i, sobretot, solitud. Una...

El libro cubre la produccion prosistica, mayormente la narrativa, del escritor puertorriqueno, desde 1957 hasta 1984, destacando su caracter grotesco como una metafora del caos politico y social generado por el llamado -Estado Libre Asociado- de Puerto Rico. El estilo de Sanchez potencia lo carnavalesco, no como celebracion do la vida a la manera renacentista, sino como un modo farsico de confrontar la exageracion y el hiperbolismo de la vida colonial puertorriquena."

In Gronjor, a world that's half light and half shadow, a group of hunters traverse the untamed dark side. They're headed towards the labyrinth, the most savage zone on the planet, populated by wild animals that work to throw center-seekers off their path. Gronjor's delicate equilibrium depends on this cruel process of selection controlled by the sorcerer Milosh. There's little cause for hope, except for a prophecy that speaks of an imminent change...

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure – implying the distortion or disappearance of myth – and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section...