De Arcadia a Babel

Góngora's Soledades, the major lyric poem of the Spanish Baroque. Combining philological rigor with a capacity to engage the most contemporary transatlantic and comparatist concerns, this work situates Luis de Góngora's Soledades within the problematic evolution of Hispanic modernity. As well as offering an insightful analysis of the Soledades as an expression of the Baroque crisis in all its facets -epistemological, ontological, cultural and historical - the author reads the fragmented lyric subject of Gongorist poetics back against Renaissance precursors [Rojas' Celestina and the poetry...

El autor nos ofrece de manera ágil, amena, y sin embargo completa, este recorrido por cien años de literatura costarricense. Brevedad solo indica aquí conocimiento pleno de la materia y claridad en la búsqueda de lo esencial. En esta obra corta, el autor presenta a manera de ensayo, no un catálogo o listado de autores y textos costarricenses, sino un análisis historiográfico de la literatura de este país, contextualizado con datos y apreciaciones del entorno político, social y cultural de las distintas épocas.

An intriguing study of The Da Vinci Code looks at the content, themes, real-life historical background and characters, and revelations of the best-selling novel.

Inspector Bismark Pacheco, the most respected man in Costa Rica, would rather practice playing his tuba, but he is called to the mountain resort of Monteverde to investigate an armed robbery of a group of tourists, and Pacheco soon finds himself pitted against a group of clever professional criminals.