Cuerpo a Diario

This work is premised on the assumption that the time that has transpired since the original exodus after the Cuban Revolution has been sufficient to establish a definable Cuban American literature. This volume, which includes 29 authors writing in Spanish who have lived in the United States since at least 1970, is wide ranging in its aspirations and provides samples of the two fundamental components of Cuban American literature.

The author of short stories, novels and essays, Benítez Rojo is an atypical intellectual in the panorama of Cuban exile because he offers an original perspective of the past, present and future conflicts of this troubled and complex area. This literary biography tells of his journey from his emergence in the Cuban intellectual world in 1967 to his death in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2005.

This is a collection of 29 essays from many of the world's top scholars to honor their beloved and influential colleague and mentor, Frederick A. de Armas. The essays are grouped into the categories "Studies in CalderÓn," "Iberian Stages," "Reading the Siglo de Oro: Poetry and Prose," and "Don Quixote."

Tomando como guía y fuente histórica el conjunto de la obra rabelasiana el análisis del siglo XVI que lleva a cabo Lucien Febvre se ha convertido ya en una obra ejemplar: la sensibilidad de la época, la vida intelectual y la influencia universal de las creencias y la religión sobre el espíritu en el concreto espacio de una obra intelectual y literaria. Una tarea inmensa, pues lo que se pone en cuestión en este libro es toda la concepción preexistente del siglo XVI en su generalizada vertiente y definición humanista.