Entre la Cruz y la Media Luna

The evening that everyone has been waiting for has finally come. Heinrich Heine's "El pobre Pedro" will be performed on stage, by children for children. The young actors are getting ready for their grand entrance, while the theater-goers are streaming in. The curtain goes up and the story begins, the story of how Peter doesn't get Greta. It's dramatic, exciting, and sometimes even funny. By looking at the pictures, the reader can see how the audience reacts. They are either surprised, appaled, or amused. In his picture book for children, Peter Schössow adapts this old tale of love and...

Cuando en 1935 el crítico literario chileno Raúl Silva Castro escribe que ninguna poesía de Gabriela Mistral le «parece plausible» y que toda su obra es «un conjunto de exageraciones, caídas de tono, imágenes oscuras y retorcimiento verbal» o, casi un siglo y medio antes, Voltaire califica Hamlet de W. Shakespeare como «bárbara y vulgar», fruto de «un salvaje borracho», las glorias y las miserias de la crítica se revelan en toda su intensidad: la miseria que implica el no acertar, la gloria que conlleva el atreverse a fallar. Este libro cobija un sinnúmero de juicios...

Prologado por el reconocido crítico Tzvetan Todorov, este volumen concluye la tetralogía de Bénichou sobre la poética del romanticismo francés. A partir del estudio de escritores nacidos alrededor de 1810, como Sainte-Beuve, Nodier, Musset, Nerval y Gautier, se devela el rostro del “segundo” romanticismo, el de la desilusión.

There was much excitement on the small mountain farm. All the animals were waiting for the new horse to be brought in. They expected him to be snow-white, tall and thin. When the trailer with the horse arrived at the farm, Katja the Cow saw him. The animals were convinced that they would meet a unicorn. But would they?