Camino en la oscuridad

In this very realistic novel, six people tell readers about the life of a teenage drug user named Mario from the time he was born to the time he dies at age 19. The different voices blend to create a poignant commentary on family, friendship, love, society, and the problems facing young people.

This study deals with the experience of exile in the works of three Spanish American writers: The Cuban authors Reinaldo Arenas and Manuel Diaz Martinez, as well as the Uruguayan author Fernando Ainsa. Along with the reshaping of territories, and socio-economic and cultural dimensions which took place on a worldwide scale, the last few decades have also witnessed a reshaping of the spectrum and voices of Latin-American writers that create, revisit and suffer the complex and multifaceted phenomenon of exile. The displaced subject, or rather, the voices of the displaced, the marginalized and...

A study of the relationship betwen court festivity and theatre in 16c Spain. Dr Ferrer Valls studies the relationship between court festivity and theatre in the sixteenth century, placing special emphasis on staging. She argues that throughout the reign of Philip II court spectacle perpetuates the complicated staging of traditional performances, but with greater emphasis on their dramatic aspects and on the use of music and song. In the first two decades of the seventeenth century, and above all in specific plays by Lope de Vega, court spectacles come to reflect also the influence of Italian...

La literatura y el ocio en la sociedad cortesana del Siglo de Oro es un estudio histórico sobre el ideal del ocio laborioso, diferenciado de la ociosidad que consiste en no hacer nada. El enfoque resulta novedoso, ya que escasean las investigaciones sobre la historia moderna del otium, complementaria del negotium, quizá por haber sido considerada un tema de importancia menor con relación al trabajo. La principal hipótesis desarrollada tiene que ver con la revaloración del ocio laborioso ocurrida en el contexto de la sociedad cortesana de los siglos XVI y XVII, cuya herencia persiste con...