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Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character created in 1887 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a ‘detective consultant’ in London in the late nineteenth century, known for his intelligence and his skillful use of observation and deductive reasoning to solve difficult cases. This type of investigator, known for his extreme intelligence, influenced the majority of later detective fiction. He is the creator of his own profession ‘detective consultant,’ which consists of helping clarify the particularly difficult cases to the official detectives of Scotland Yard, or private detectives, like is the...

Encuentro en Telgte es una parábola directa. No intelectual, sin embargo. El Premio Nobel de Literatura Günter Grass logra un fresco vital, barroco, popular, con la rotundidad de un cuadro de Brueghel y la precisión lingüística de Cervantes. En 1947, recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, escritores de las dos Alemanias se reúnen en Telgte para reflexionar sobre la función del escritor en un país dividido y con un idioma que ha perdido su naturaleza, impregnado de violencia tras varios lustros de nazismo. El proyecto tiene antecedentes. Trescientos años antes, tras la Guerra de ...

El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la vispera de la boda de la mujer con otro hombre. Garia Lorca convierte la realidad en poesia. En su obra hay ansias de libertad, andalucismo, simbolismo y muerte, pero por encima de todo, poesia dramatica. Bodas de sangre es, pues, una obra teatral donde las desgarradas pasiones de sus protagonistas se desatan ante la atenta mirada de la luna, personificacion hermosa y terrible de la muerte.

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...