Mi resurrección

En la Guatemala del final de la Colonia una serie de personajes se van perfilando alrededor de Sanjuana. Desde sus encierros "voluntarios" esta mujer, terrena a la fuerza, incidirá en la vida privada y pública de una sociedad supersticiosa.

The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the essentials of Robert Browning's life and poetry. Drawing from his personal letters and from the diaries and memoirs of his contemporaries, this literary biography provides a wealth of information about the main events of his life, including the social, political, religious, and aesthetic issues that concerned him; it offers critical commentary defining the central characteristics of his poetry; and it tracks the changes in his reputation through contemporary reviews and the growth of the Browning...

Raymond Roussel, nacido en 1877 y muerto en circunstancias misteriosas en 1933, es una de las figuras literarias más irresistibles de todos los tiempos. Su poesía, sus novelas y sus piezas teatrales han ejercido una influencia significativa en la obra de muchos de los escritores y artistas más conocidos del siglo XX: Jean Cocteau declaró que era «un genio en estado puro», mientras que Salvador Dalí, que murió con un ejemplar de Impresiones de África (Siruela, 1990 y 2004) en su mesilla de noche, lo consideraba uno de los mayores escritores que Francia había producido. Duchamp,...

Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most famous Cuban writer of her time. But the yearning for freedom, as in so many other cases, ultimately prevailed, and in 1995, while invited to a conference on José Martí in Paris, she asked for political asylum in France. That decision would mark her life and would be the beginning of a long series of recognitions and awards for a fruitful and impeccable...