La historia de Gilgamesh

In een Chinees provinciestadje komt in 1979 een groepje mensen in opstand tegen de executie van een jonge afvallige communiste, die na tien jaar gevangenisstraf gek is geworden.

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...

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. “The most interesting ideas are heresies,” she remarked, and indeed, her writing rejects the familiar and refuses party lines. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag...

A collection of poems, including "The Massacre," "No Harm Shall Come," "Touched," "Evensong," and "Amberose Triste"

Cuando Francisco Bramón publica la novela pastoril Los Sirgueros de la Virgen sin original pecado (México, 1620) ya la Nueva España contaba con otro precedente ilustre en el género: Siglo de Oro en las selvas de Erífile (1608) de Bernardo de Balbuena. Ahora bien, la intencionalidad de una y otra obra es muy diferente, ya que no sería desacertado si dijéramos que la novela de Bramón es la única novela pastoril divinizada de las letras novohispanas; al menos no se conoce ninguna otra hasta la fecha. En el caso de Bramón los pastores que recorren los "jardines mexicanos" son devotos...