VIRGINIA WOOLF Y EL ENSAYO MODERNISTA SOBRE LONDRES

Anadir uno mas a los multiples estudios sobre don Juan quiza parezca tarea innecesaria o vanidosa. A veces pienso que don Juan, junto a su lista de mujeres seducidas, pudiera presentar otra, mas larga si cabe, de criticos seducidos por sus andanzas. Mas no sobre don Juan solo. Pues las figuras que rondan en torno suyo, singularmente las mujeres y el Comendador, lo determinan de tal modo que sin ellas se volatizaria. Don Juan es un mito y, como tal, un objeto de fantasia o deseo, no ya del autor o del lector, sino de aquellos otros personajes que con el se rozan. Aparente protagonista, su...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...

C sar Vallejo is one of the finest poets of Latin America, and his poetry has managed to maintain a broad readership base right up until the modern day. Since Vallejo's posthumous poems were first published in 1939 in an edition supervised by his widow, Georgette de Vallejo, there remain to this day a number of unanswered questions about them. In what order did Vallejo write the poems? Would he have published the poems as they are? This book, by a careful analysis of the evidence available, proposes a new chronology for the posthumous poems, suggesting that the Peruvian poet's work went...

John Meade Falkner nació en Wiltshire (Inglaterra) en 1858. Tras graduarse en Oxford, supo compaginar sus eruditas y dispares aficiones, como la música sacra, la demonología, los libros viejos, los violines o los vinos antiguos, con el más lucrativo empleo de tutor de los hijos del poderoso Andrew Noble, destacado directivo de la naviera inglesa Armstrong Mitchell, de la que Falkner llegó a ser presidente. Realizó numerosos viajes comerciales por Europa y Asia, viajes que aprovechó para hacer eruditas investigaciones históricas en Italia o Turquía. Sus obligaciones profesionales no...