Thomas Merton

En Ararat, Frank Westerman emprende un fascinante viaje por las difusas fronteras entre la religión y la ciencia. «¿Dónde está el Dios de mi Biblia infantil? ¿Quién o qué ha ocupado Su lugar?» Éstas son algunas de las preguntas que el autor se plantea cuando contempla desde Armenia el Ararat bíblico, donde supuestamente encalló el arca de Noé. En su búsqueda de respuestas, Westerman desentraña todo lo concerniente a la legendaria montaña, entrevistándose con geólogos, sacerdotes, astronautas y coincide, en las faldas del monte, con una expedición de rusos ávidos por...

Against the apparent initial antagonism between literature and law, Magris proposes a more profound and complex vision and argues that law’s frigidity is also what makes possible life’s warmth, which is passionately portrayed by literature. In this way, he vindicates the richness of a relationship that, far from being one of opposition, often ends up revealing important similarities. Al aparente antagonismo inicial entre la literatura y el derecho, Magris contrapone una visión más profunda y compleja y revela que la frialdad del derecho es también lo que hace posible la calidez de la...

"Jesus Torrecilla explores the question of how societies considered to be marginal perceive their relationship with those that are hegemonic. Focusing on the works of Mariano Jose de Larra, Benito Perez Galdos, and Miguel de Unamuno, he argues that the inner tension created between the foreign models and the writers' own literary tradition explains two of the most important characteristics of Spanish literature: its belatedness with respect to European trends and, more generally, its traditionalism, which, says Torrecilla, is a reaction not against modernity as such but against modernity as a ...

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...