Kalila y Dimna

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.

This is the first collection of criticism on Mario Benedetti's work published in Spanish covering his literary works, the major themes of his writing, cinematic interpretations of his works, and his political commitments.

La presente obra ha conocido un destino poco generoso: acabada a mediados de 1937 y lista para la publicación en 1938, el proceso editorial se frustró en última instancia, y los poemas que la componían se fueron publicando sueltos con posterioridad, o bien quedaron arrinconados en vida del poeta. Pero Largo lamento es una pieza esencial en la trayectoria de Pedro Salinas, pues compone una tríada con La voz a ti debida y Razón de amor, y culmina, a través de la experiencia de la ruptura entre los amantes, el recorrido lírico (con innegable trasfondo autobiográfico) del que ha sido...

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca.