Mártires y anticristos

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...

Juan's father, a fisherman, is caught in a storm and returns very ill. Guided by his friend, the Moon, Juan takes a magical trip to the bottom of the sea and recaptures his father's health from an ornery octopus.

Esta obra nos confronta con mujeres y hombres que no aceptan la imposición de un modo de vida. El genio está a su lado en forma de literatura, danza, música, pintura o filosofía, y todo lector encontrará que comparten algo con él: la conciencia de que existir bajo los términos de los otros no siempre es una opción. Con ensayos breves y contundentes, Bárbara Jacobs nos muestra los lazos entre las acciones de estos artistas, su obra y nuestra psique; nos adentra en un tema tan fundamental como apasionante: la condición humana con todas sus impurezas, sus giros imprevistos y, siempre...

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.