Sabiduría griega y paradoja cristiana

(Françoise Sagan - Bertolt Brecht - Saint-Exupéry - Simone de Beauvoir - Paul Valéry - Saint-John Perse). Trad. esp. de V. GARCÍA YEBRA.

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness and courted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Throughout her career, she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. Her living was the embodiment of scandal. In this collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K....

"Considerada por muchos un clásico del erotismo contemporáneo, esta novela ... cuenta, en un primer nivel, la historia del definitivo despertar de Isadora Wing a los placeres de la vida y el sexo. Pero más allá de esta primera lectura, este libro apasionante y divertido es también una novela que han leído las mujeres para aprender a liberarse, y los hombres para aprender acerca de las mujeres"--Page 4 of cover.

Poeta, editor y ensayista, Víctor Manuel Mendiola nos ofrece en estas páginas un retrato detallado de la obra de Xavier Villaurrutia, al tiempo que un mural grupal de los Contemporáneos. Este ensayo alentará y guiará la necesaria lectura de la poesía de Villaurrutia tanto para su mejor comprensión como para su descubrimiento.

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...