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61) Poesía I
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Esta edición en dos tomos reúne la obra poética de Ramón de Basterra que no se publicaba desde 1958.
El primero recoge Las ubres luminosas (1923), La sencillez de los seres (1923), Los labios del monte (1924) y el inédito hasta 1971, Llama romance. Incluye, además, un ensayo preliminar de José Carlos Mainer titulado «Para leer a Ramón de Basterra (instrucciones de uso)».
El segundo reúne Vírulo. Las mocedades (1924) y Vírulo. Mediodía...
62) Egon Schiele
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Egon Schiele is considered by many to be the greatest draftsman of the 20th century. The undeniable fact, however that a considerable share of his work is of an explicitly erotic nature has blinded many people to his remarkable ability, so much so that he is primarily known as an Austrian Expressionist artist of the erotic. Schiele's full artistic flowering lasted only a little over 10 years. He was cut down at the cruelly early age of 28, just as...
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Félix María Samaniego, célebre por sus fábulas, escribió también El jardín de Venus, un libro de poemas eróticos en la España del siglo XVIII. Es una colección de relatos en verso eróticos, humorísticos y de contenido procaz. Sorprende esta faceta ignota del autor de fábulas tan conocidas como las de La lechera o La cigarra y La hormiga.
Así que, frente a una literatura moralizante, la de las fábulas, tenemos, del mismo autor, esta...
64) Vermeer
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Jan Vermeer is acknowledged as one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Yet in his lifetime he was largely unregarded and struggled to make a living for himself and his family. He lived and worked all his life in the prosperous Dutch town of Delft painting perfectly beautiful pictures of the inhabitants and their homes. Vermeer's technique was faultlessly meticulous and consequently painstakingly slow. Fewer than forty of his paintings have survived,...
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To save his father from execution for treason, the Bravo Giovanni agrees to act as an assassin for The Council of Ten, and ruthlessly carries out their orders for targeted killings against real or imagined enemies of the Serene Republic of Venice in Italy. Inevitably, the Council members begin using the Bravo for their own purposes. When the Count de Bellamonte lusts after a helpless orphan girl, he forces Giovanni to eliminate her protector. But...
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“Six Plays” by Henrik Ibsen is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography, key dates and suggestions for further reading) and the complete text, uncluttered with footnotes. The translations, by leading experts in the field, are...
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En su madurez, el marqués de Santillana escribió obras de tipo moral y político. Entre ellas destaca este Prohemio a proverbios. Esta obra es resultado de un encargo de Juan II para la educación del príncipe Enrique.
La Carta Prohemio al Condestable Don Pedro de Portugal (c. 1445) es una especie de introducción al conjunto de sus poemas que le envió al condestable Álvaro de Luna (su gran enemigo). Se trata del primer ensayo crítico en castellano...
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Michael Pedersen's poems get under my skin. As well as defining and codifying my own experiences, they also challenge them. And I always feel more upbeat and hopeful after having read them. You really can't ask much more from a poet'-Irvine Welsh
“Oyster” is the second collection from prize-winning Edinburgh poet Michael Pedersen.
From Grez-sur-Loing and festive nights to sizzling summers stretched out in the Meadows and Portobello, Michael Pedersen's...
71) Mary Cassatt
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Although an American, Mary Cassatt spent the majority of her life in France and gained most of her fame and success in Europe. Not until after her death on June 14, 1926, at Chateau de Beaufresne, near Paris, did she become a truly celebrated American artist. Cassatt is known most for her paintings and pastels of mothers and their children. Never having been a mother herself, perhaps Cassatt was mesmerized by the familial bond so evident to observers...
72) Paul Klee
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Paul Klee's philosophy of art is perhaps best summed up by his own statement: "A drawing is simply a line going for a walk." As one of the great avant garde artists of the 20th century, Swiss-born Klee was swept along with the changing moods and philosophies of the time. Klee did not readily fit into a particular artistic category. He used many styles and techniques, always exploring the different variations that each media opened up to him. An important...
73) Arte de trovar
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El Arte de trovar (1433) de don Enrique de Villena es una adaptación al castellano de las poéticas trovadorescas. Dedicado al marqués de Santillana, en él se conjugan ciertas observaciones sobre la poesía, muy influidas por la tradición trovadoresca provenzal y catalana, con disquisiciones más lingüísticas.
En la primera se hace un breve repaso de las Artes poéticas trovadorescas y se describen con delectación el gobierno y desarrollo de...
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A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020. With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cavafy's finest poems, short creative prose and autobiographical writings, offering unique insights into his life's work. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863-1933) was a minor civil servant who self-published and distributed...
75) Sonetos
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Garcilaso de la Vega escribió la mayoría de sus Sonetos en la década de 1520, durante el periodo en que su obra deja notar el influjo de Petrarca y de los poetas del Renacimiento italiano.
En sus Sonetos Garcilaso se ocupa de temas mundanos como la belleza y el amor al tiempo que admite su carácter efímero. Pero además de rescatar los tópicos de la poesía clásica latina, con los sonetos el poeta adaptó los versos de once sílabas a la lengua...
76) La Araucana II
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La experiencia americana de Alonso de Ercilla le inspiró su poema épico La Araucana, escrito en octavas reales y dividido en tres partes (1569, 1578 y 1589).
La Araucana es uno de los libros que se salvan en el capítulo VI del Quijote. El primer texto poético europeo en el que América es un tema literario.
Ercilla relata las cruentas luchas sostenidas en Chile entre araucanos y españoles, y describe el lugar y las costumbres de los indígenas.
La...
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Based on the Victor Hugo novel of the same name (penned when the author was only twenty-one), this macabre play begins in a morgue. The fearsome outlaw, Hans of Iceland, whose face has been seen by no one, determines to kill a regiment of Musketeers that he blames for the death of his son. His revenge intersects in a bloody way with the more conventional romantic plot of a young nobleman who loves the daughter of a political prisoner that the former...
78) Romancero viejo
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El Romancero viejo está formado por romances anónimos, compuestos entre el siglo XIV y el siglo XVI. Los primeros romances tienen su origen en el cantar de gesta y cada uno de sus versos estaba dividido en dos partes-o hemistiquios-por una pausa-o cesura-con una sola rima asonante.
Como la fórmula del romance gustaba mucho al público, los juglares empezaron a componer otros en los que daban noticias, recogían leyendas populares, batallas, crónicas...
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Espejo mío, espejo mío, ¿cuál de estos textos soy yo?
Ya no sé cómo te encontré, si fue en un paseo junto al mar o si fuiste tú quien entró llanura adentro buscando la sombra fresca de mi cuerpo. Sé que ha transcurrido toda una vida, que hemos sido casi todo, aunque continuemos siendo casi nada. Ya no sé cómo te encontré, si fue en un paseo junto al mar o si fuiste tú quien entró llanura adentro buscando la sombra fresca de mi cuerpo....
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Los poemas del libro El unicornio y el delirio son, realmente, poemas de mi adolescencia, ya que su escritura comenzó —si mal no recuerdo— alrededor de 2007 y concluyó en 2011. En el título hay una referencia a los seis tapices flamencos reunidos bajo el título "La dama y el unicorniο", especialmente al sexto tapiz, al que acompañan las palabras "À mon seul désir", es decir, "A mi único deseo". Veo cada libro mío —tanto los que han...
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