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“En un principio me atrajo un interrogante que aparecía con contundencia en su narrativa- acerca de la femineidad. Sin embargo, a medida que me fui adentrando en el tema, comprendí que las novelas de la autora bien podrían haber sido tratados de sociología, porque el aliento que impulsa su creación literaria es una pregunta en torno a la naturaleza y a la cultura, al hecho que produce la humanización, a la ley que hace vínculo social. Y anudados a dichos conceptos, el hombre y la mujer, implicados en la misma epopeya, situados cada uno en uno de los dos lados, aderezados con los...

Peter Pan was born over a century ago. There is something doubly contradictory in this phrase that, although true, is also the reason why this book has been released. We are talking about the boy who will never grow up and the fact that he is celebrating his hundredth birthday should provoke some surprise. At the same time, he is such a powerful icon that it is also true that he seems to have been there, floating in our culture, reappearing in its images, since time immemorial - much farther back than the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although he considered dying to be an...

This volume of collected essays explores the premise that Plutarch's work, notwithstanding its amazing thematic multifariousness, constantly pivots on certain ideological pillars which secure its unity and coherence. So, unlike other similar books which, more or less, concentrate on either the Lives or the Moralia or on some particular aspect(s) of Plutarch's oeuvre, the articles of the present volume observe Plutarch at work in both Lives and Moralia, thus bringing forward and illustrating the inner unity of his varied literary production. The subject-matter of the volume is uncommonly...

El buenazo del tío Benito va a cuidar de Bad Kitty y Puppy mientras su familia está de vacaciones...Parece una tarea fácil, ¿verdad? ¡Pues no tiene ni idea de los que le espera!