Las Novelas de Maria de Zayas (1590-1650)

One of the most intellectually and emotionally engaging of the Spanish Golden Age (seventeenth century) plays, as well as the most controversial. Taking place during the reign of King Pedro of Castile (1350¡1369), it is one of the spectacular 'honour dramas', in which the main characters confront compelling yet conflicting imperatives.

El Libro de erudición poética is the text that describes the principles of the occult. According to Carrillo, thorough readers should interpret, with extreme patience, references and metaphors of the text through re-reading. While his work was obscure, its perceived "darkness" was due in large part to its depth.

H.P. Lovecraft (sumo sacerdote de los Mitos de Cthulhu) se sentía un extraño en su Providence natal y en el tiempo que le había tocado vivir; en la ficción de Cthulhu HPL extrapola ese sentimiento al hombre moderno en el cosmos: una entidad extraña, perdida, a la deriva, que oscila en el borde de un abismo espantoso. El relato La llamada de Cthulhu (Weird Tales, 1928) de H.P. Lovecraft, presentaba el hallazgo de un ser inmemorial e indescriptible, llegado hace eones a la Tierra desde el espacio exterior, que yacía dormido en el fondo del océano. La sugestión de un cosmos hostil...

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...