Pobreza y desigualdad social en la narrativa costarricense: 1890-1950

Sólo un cervantista de la erudición de Edward C. Riley podía realizar una síntesis clara, rigurosa y ágil de todo lo que sabemos acerca del clásico absoluto de las letras españolas. El profesor Riley sitúa al Quijote en la biografía del autor y en la sociedad de su época, lo examina a la luz de la teoría y la práctica de la novela del Siglo de Oro y lleva a cabo un análisis literario de singular finura y profundidad.

Primera traducción al castellano de uno de los repertorios de exempla moralizados más populares de la Baja Edad Media europea.

First published in 1900 Uruguay, Ariel is Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations. Though Rodó protested the interpretation, his allegorical conflict between Ariel, the lover of beauty and truth, and Caliban, the evil spirit of materialism and positivism, has come to be regarded as a metaphor for the conflicts and cultural differences between Latin America and the United States. Generations of statesmen, intellectuals, and literary figures have been formed by this book, either in championing...

He's proven it and proves it again in this hilarious, fast-paced story animated by her proverbial grace and his wit. Marco Denevi and some mysterious alter ego narrate a vast chronicle in an unusual way: offering the details of that kind of saga shredded in the articles of an encyclopedia. Articles that the reader can put together in diverse narrative systems, advancing successively, or alternating their advance in jumps, crosses, combinations... Thus, they will compose the story of an Argentine family that begins with the arrival in these lands of a Manuel the Adelantadito, conqueror of the...