Poesía italiana. La lengua incansable

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...

H.W. Hudson evoca en "Allá lejos y tiempo atrás" sus años de juventud en Argentina con una prosa que lo sitúa entre los mejores escritores en lengua inglesa. Arnaldo Calveyra relee a Hudson y enhebra su prosa personal (esa prosa que mantiene desde siempre un equilibrio vacilante con la poesía) con la del releído. De una prosa a la otra hay cambios de voces, pero el tejido es fuerte y tenue como el horizonte del campo. Todo en "Allá en lo verde Hudson" (el autor como matiz de color) está hecho de estas continuidades secretas, nunca evidentes, y a la vez de imperceptibles hiatos. "Allá ...

Antonio Perez, the brilliant but erratic secretary to Philip II of Spain, became in the years of his exile a political agent in the service of the Earl of Essex, arriving at the Court of Queen Elizabeth in 1593. On behalf of Essex, who valued him as a friend, a partner and a humanist scholar, he cast an intelligence network over Italy; and he made a striking, though dangerous, contribution to the Essex cult.

Establishing the notion of reasonable foolishness and foolish reason as a generic principle of the old French farce, Boucquey's study examines the interdependencies among four key mimetic phenomena: the demented universe of the Feast of Fools festival, the genre of the farce, Bruegel's representation of the world, and the euphoric comedies of triumphant madness created by Moliere. This reinterpretation of French farce according to the principle of a topsy-turvy world reveals the link of madness that unites the four modes of production studied, from textual linearity, through representational...