El camino de Dante

Según André Gide, nadie podía llevar más lejos que Alfred Jarry la negación. Si el creador de Ubú dejó sobre los escenarios las reglas de una solución imaginaria para acabar con la lógica, en su novela «moderna» El Supermacho trató de burlarse de los sueños de la filosofía positiva que no veía fronteras al progreso humano mediante el humor y el disparate. En los límites de la erótica y la anticipación, entre Sade y H.G. Wells, El Supermacho muestra los juegos a los que la teoría y la práctica del amor pueden entregarse, teniendo por rival a las máquinas de la velocidad, a ...

"Although there are other works on the linguistic interactions between the English and Spanish languages inside the Cuban community in the Greater Miami area, this book is an all encompassing study that lets us see where the language stands today, using recent trends that also let us project what will occur to the Spanish language in the near future.. At the same time, the book offers a clear picture, using current statistics, of what the Cuban community in Miami has accomplished in just four decades."

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

In this book we're invited to choose words randomly, to count syllables, to let the stress in the words make its music, to give in to the meaning of words, to become readers of poetry, to spread the verses in Spanish that are ours and everybody's. Many wrongly believe that verses are written in a state of agitation, enthusiasm, or near-dementia, but, to the benefit of those trying to write their first poem, Hiriart proves that this is hardly ever the case. Great examples of poetry from classic and contemporary authors, and anecdotes and dialogues of great wit and precision, make this volume a ...