Sindéresis

Tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, Zweig se traslada a Salzburgo, mientras se forjaba la destrucción del sueño humanista en Europa. Allí escribe este libro, donde reúne catorce momentos vivos y ejemplares que marcaron la vida de la cultura y del ser humano. Como un cronista ejemplar y con el estilo clásico de la literatura de aventuras, Zweig parece asistir a los acontecimientos que narra, sufre con ellos y participa de sus éxtasis: la mirada de Lenin en el tren hacia San Petersburgo, el ansia de vivir de Händel cuando compone El Mesías, la contemplación de los dos océanos por Núñez...

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

Edited, translated, and introduced by Luis A. Ramos-Garcia Based on the princeps edition (1801) and preceded by a lengthy introductory study, this critical annonated edition documents key aspects of Spain's controversial Age of Reason, particularly the uncertain shifts in ideas, and the peculiarities of Montengon's idiosyncratic philosophical system.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...