El faro de las montañas (parte 1)

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The Lie Circumspect is a novel by Rita. Rita was an English novelist also known as Eliza Humphreys. Excerpt: "Startled and white as death, she looked up at his face. It was not the face she had known and loved in her girlish innocence; not the face that had haunted her memory for four despairing years. It was the face of a man into whose soul the iron of suffering had entered, whose heart had been seared, not purified, in the furnace of sorrow. It takes a great nature to bear deserved punishment, and Lawrence Latimer's nature was not great."

Premio Formentor 2021 Haciendo gala de una finísima ironía, Aira nos hace reflexionar en Parménides acerca de cuestiones como el porqué del deseo de escribir o cuál es el pago justo a dicho trabajo, planteando cuestiones fundamentales en torno a la creación y el reconocimiento profesional e intelectual. Parménides, prominente jerarca griego del siglo V a.C., contrata al escritor Perinola para que le ayude a escribir un libro. Un libro indefinido que tiene en mente desde hace ya tiempo pero que no se anima a redactar por desconocimiento técnico. La única pista que Perinola recibe del...

Este volumen ofrece un panorama completo de la historia de la literatura española desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad. En él se explican las corrientes literarias que han cruzado nuestra cultura, se comentan las obras más destacadas escritas en español y se habla de los autores y de su formación intelectual, sin olvidar el entorno social o político que hizo posible en un momento dado la aparición de una obra concreta. Todo ello con la amenidad de un libro destinado a estudiantes y lectores curiosos. Carlos Alvar (catedrático de la Universidad de Alcalá) se ha ocupado de la Edad...