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Alexandre Dumas, el escritor europeo más popular del siglo pasado, nos trae con Capitán de lobos, una de las novelas menos conocidas del autor de Los tres mosqueteros, todo el aroma de los terrores de su infancia, de los días en que recorría ocioso y sobrecogido la inmensidad de los montes y bosques de Villers-Cotterêts -región boscosa al noreste de París de donde era originario- hasta el anochecer, cuando el viento hace gemir las ramas, y los árboles, semejantes a un océano, se agitan, cobran vida, te rodean y te envuelven en una terrible y total oscuridad, como la propia muerte. El ...

Baldomero Macías Rosendo ha editado documentación reunida por el propio Arias Montano (1527-1598) en torno a la Biblia Políglota de Amberes, conservada en el manuscrito A902 de la Biblioteca Real de Estocolmo. A ello ha añadido, un estudio sobre la preparación y ejecución de la Políglota y su importancia en la trayectoria vital e intelectual de Montano.

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...

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...