Mediterráneo

Campo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. Sebald When W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the pieces he left behind - none of them previously published in book form - which provide a powerful insight into the themes that came to dominate his life. Four pieces pay tribute to Corsica, weaving elegiacally between past and present. Sebald also examines the works of writers such as Kafka, Nabokov, and Günter Grass, showing both how literature can provide restitution for the injustices of the world and how such literature came to...

Dos textos se ofrecen al lector en este cuarto volumen de las obras anotadas de Tomás Carrasquilla: San Antoñito y Luterito: Damiancito Rada, el protagonista de San Antoñito, es de la estirpe del Tartufo de Molière. Ambos comparten esa beatería que tanto oculta. Pero a diferencia del francés, cuyas acciones pronto lo dejan al descubierto, el santico de Carrasquilla, dibujado con pinceladas llenas de ironía, se les revela tarde a esas mujeres que lo acogen y que no podrán contar —como los personajes de Molière— con la justicia que castiga el engaño y al engañador. Solas,...

Martina, una adolescente de dieciocho años, va desgranando los recuerdos de su familia y los suyos propios a través de estas veinticinco hilarantes relatos en los que se entremezclan increíbles personajes y curiosas anécdotas jamás vividas. Esta obra, narrada de un modo magistral, introduce al lector en un disparatado y estrambótico mundo que, difícilmente podrá olvidar.

In Spanish. This representative selection of Spanish literature from the twelfth to the seventeenth century provides a coherent study of full-length works rather than isolated remnants. These carefully chosen selections portray those persons and events of literary or historical significance that best illustrate the evolution of Spains national character. English aids and an extensive vocabulary list achieve a comprehensive picture for the reader so as to facilitate an understanding of the robust nature of the Spanish language. Explanatory footnotes are plentiful throughout the book. The...