Contemporary Mexican Women Writers

The disinherited, which takes place in what has come to be known and studied as the Madrid of Galdós or Galdosian Madrid, narrates the misadventures of Isidora --the supposedly disinherited--, a pretty girl who arrives in the Spanish capital "full of illusions, falls into prostitution and ends up in jail. "A dreamy sensibility that has been led to believe the heir of a marquisate. In this regard, Casalduero, correctly reading Galdós, notes that "an impostor like Isidora can have tragic greatness when he himself is deceived; otherwise he is a vulgar faker".

Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks invade her native Poland. Within days her husband Jacob, a member of the Resistance, is forced to flee, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit, mouldering Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the Resistance smuggles her out, and she is given a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a Gentile. Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high–ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant. Urged by the Resistance to use her position to access details of...

Primera parte de la saga histórica que recrea la historia de la familia más poderosa del Renacimiento. Novela ganadora del Premio Bancarella 2017. Florencia, 1429. A la muerte del patriarca Giovanni de Médici, sus hijos Cosimo y Lorenzo se encuentran al frente de un auténtico imperio financiero pero, al mismo tiempo, cercados por enemigos acérrimos como Rinaldo degli Albizzi y Palla Strozzi, exponentes de las más poderosas familias florentinas. Valiéndose de su inteligencia y su falta de prejuicios, los dos hermanos conquistan el poder político, hallando el equilibrio entre un...

Edici�n de Ana Su�rez Miram�n, catedr�tica de Literatura Espa�ola en la UNED. Nadie mejor que G�ngora define el esp�ritu barroco en lo que tiene de extremado: al deliberado gusto por la elipsis, la met�fora y a la oscuridad formal en sus grandes poemas se contraponen la sencillez, el regusto popular y la facundia de sus romances y letrillas. Unos y otros son admirable muestra del talento multiforme de uno de los grandes nombres del Siglo de Oro. Esta edici�n incluye una introducci�n que contextualiza la obra, un aparato de notas, una cronolog�a y una bibliograf�a...