George Orwell

Within the historic events in the 1930's Spain, among whose most important outcome stands the triumph of the Spanish Second Republic (1931), Jose Diaz Fernandez released his book of essays, El Nuevo Romanticismo (The New Romanticism), a compendium of his observations on art, literature, feminism, liberalism, and politics, all five understood as parts of the vital and social processes. Besides being a panoramic scan of the issues that marked the Spanish and European culture during the period between wars, this book expresses a defined will to guide the artistic Avant Gardes and to consolidate...

«El carácter inglés: Sus relaciones con la novela contemporánea» (1924) es un ensayo de Alberto Nin Frías sobre crítica literaria donde el autor analiza diferentes obras inglesas y las relaciona entre sí para componer y describir el carácter literario inglés. Alberto Nin Frías (1878-1937) fue un escritor, profesor, diplomático y periodista uruguayo bisnieto del rico marino mercante español Antonio Nin y Soler. Debido a su trabajo, residió en distintas ciudades como Washington, Río de Janeiro o Santiago de Chile. Son célebres sus pioneros ensayos en defensa de la homosexualidad.

A través de la lectura de los autorretratos de Rembrandt o de la pintura de Van Gogh, de las esculturas de Brancusi, de la obra de Miquel Barceló, Dégas, Leon Kossoff, Miguel Ángel, Antonioni, Giorgio Morandi o Frida Kahlo, el autor aventura algunos pasos hacia una pequeña teoría de lo visible, incitando a la resistencia contra la inhumanidad del nuevo orden económico mundial.

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...