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El desierto de los tártaros (Spanish Edition)
Dino Buzzati · 2012
La fascinación que desde su aparición en 1940 ha despertado "El desierto de los tártaros", la más célebre novela de Dino Buzzati (1906-1972), proviene tanto del paisaje formal de la fábula que narra, como de la significación que oculta. La historia del oficial Giovanni Drogo, destinado a una fortaleza fronteriza sobre la que pende una amenaza aplazada e inconcreta, pero obsesivamente presente, se halla cargada de resonancias que la conectan con algunos de los más hondos problemas de la existencia, como la seguridad como valor contrapuesto a la libertad, la progresiva resignación ante el estrechamiento de las posibilidades vitales de realización, o la frustración de las expectativas de hechos excepcionales que cambien el sentido de la existencia. Otras obras de Buzzati en esta colección: "Los siete mensajeros y otros relatos". Traducción de Esther Benítez
El Tunel
Ernesto Sabato
Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become fixated on her over the next months and fantasized over how they might meet again. When he happened upon her one day, a relationship was formed which swiftly convinced him of their mutual love. But Castel's growing paranoia would lead him to destroy the one thing he truly cared about...<br/><br/>Sabato's first novel El Túnel (translated as The Outsider or The Tunnel), written in 1948, is framed as the confession of the painter Juan Pablo Castel, who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him. Sabato's novels were praised by authors such as Albert Camus and Graham Greene.
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges · 2015
“These brief Ficciones have to be read one at a time, and slowly; then they throb with uncanny and haunting power.” —The Atlantic Monthly The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal’s abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges’s Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges’s genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.
Goethe's Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1962
The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.
EDIPO REY
Sófocles · 2013
Cuando Edipo, «el de los pies hinchados», hijo del rey de Corinto, descubre que hay un secreto en su origen, abandona el hogar y parte en pos de la verdad. El destino, por boca del oráculo de Delfos, le indica cuál será su suerte: matará a su padre y se desposará con su madre. En Tebas hallará a la esfinge y la respuesta a su existencia. Edipo Rey, la tragedia infinita de Sófocles, la reelaboración dramática de una de las leyendas más célebres de la literatura griega, ha fecundado la cultura occidental desde hace veinticinco siglos. En ella se encuentran cuestiones que jamás han perdido vigencia en el espíritu humano: la fatalidad, el tabú, la búsqueda de la verdad, la imposibilidad de expiación.Esta edición cuenta con la traducción y el prólogo del profesor emérito de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Luis Gil, uno de los más importantes estudiosos de la literatura clásica griega de nuestro país. Además, incluye un epílogo realizado por los profesores de
Agamenon (Spanish Edition)
Esquilo · 2016
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus · 2020
Völuspá
Keith Osgood, Anonymous · 2023
Kalevala
Elias Lönnrot · 2018
Medea
Euripides · 2020
Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides. The story is based on the myth of Jason and Medea. Medea, formerly a princess of the Black Sea kingdom of Colchis, is the wife of the hero Jason. Her position within Greek society is put in peril when Jason takes another wife. Medea decides to take her fate into her hands and start a new life in Athens, but first she must start by murdering Jason and their two children.
The Illiad
Homer · 2017
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Volume 59)
· 1984
Upanishads
Anonymous · 2004
An “Upanisad” is a teaching session with a guru, and the thirteen texts of the “Principal Upanisads”—which comprise this volume—form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed beginning around the eighth century BCE, the Upanisads have been central to the development of Hinduism, exploring its central doctrines: rebirth, karma, overcoming death, and achieving detachment, equilibrium, and spiritual bliss. Speaking to the reader in direct, unadorned prose or lucid verse, the Upanisads collected here embody humanity’s perennial search for truth and knowledge.<br/><br/>Valerie Roebuck’s powerful new translation blends accuracy with readability and retains the oral style of these stirring and profound philosophical explorations. This volume includes an introduction to the text, information on Sanskrit pronunciation, suggestions for further reading, explanatory notes, and a glossary.<br/><br/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Padmasambhava · 2022
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics)
Snorri Sturluson · 2006
The Poetic Edda
Robert Simons · 2014
Los mitos griegos
Robert Graves · 2004
Conference of Birds
ILLUSTRATIONS PETER · 2012
Bhagavad Gītā
James E Hall · 2018
The Crisis of the Modern World (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)
Rene Guenon · 2004
