JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ Y 'EL GRUPO DEL NOVECIENTOS'

This volume of essays in Spanish and English examines some of the key issues which surround the emergence of the Avant-Garde novel in Spain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The experimental novel of the 1920s is seen as the culmination of a process of change in approaches to the novel which began early in the century and was further promoted by Spain's key Avant-Gardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna. Several essays focus on the form of the novel and seek to shed new light on the role of José Ortega y Gasset as mentor to the new writers of the 1920s and on our understanding of his use...

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

No hay nada como una familia de huevos de pascua. Las liebres y los conejos se dedican a lo mismo: siempre andan robando huevos.

Esther Cross sigue los pasos de Mary Shelley con la ayuda de distintos, sorprendentes materiales. La acompaña al cementerio donde la escritora, de pequeña, se instalaba a leer; estudia sus cartas, su diario, la observa en sus duelos. Y profundiza en el mundo que se gestaba a su alrededor: la Londres moderna, la ciencia del futuro, mediante la experimentación con cadáveres. En palabras de Mariana Enriquez, La mujer que escribió Frankenstein es «un libro hermoso y extravagante, sumamente original. […] Un libro sobre Mary Shelley, sobre su época y su obra, sobre los personajes de la...