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Yerma tiene un único proyecto en el que se entremezclan el deseo personal y el mandato social de ser madre, es la tragedia en la que Lorca desarrolló con mayor amplitud y relieve un tema central en su obra: el de la esterilidad y la fecundidad. Sobre la protagonista proyectó, sin duda, un problema...

LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA fue la última obra de teatro que Lorca dejó terminada, pero no llegaría a verla representada. El poeta, además, nunca comentó nada sobre ella, por lo que se presenta como una de sus piezas más enigmáticas. Su lectura ha estado sesgada por interpretaciones de corte político...

Este drama realista presenta una lucha entre una madre autoritaria de cinco hijas, Bernarda Alba, y la libertad de su hija menor, Adela. Una madre que trata de preservar la imagen –su imagen– ante las habladurías de la gente del pueblo. El autor experimenta con temas, personajes y géneros de...

Obra poética publicada en 1928, compuesta por dieciocho romances con temas como la noche, la muerte, el cielo, la luna; todos los poemas tienen como referente la cultura gitana.

Nine long stories and essays, originally published in the acclaimed Ploughshares Solos digital series, create this fourth annual print collection. Visit a small island off the coast of Maine where the reappearance of an old friend might just push a painter suffering from artist’s block over...

The NHB Drama Classics series presents the world's greatest plays in affordable, highly readable editions for students, actors and theatregoers. The hallmarks of the series are accessible introductions (focussing on the play's theatrical and historical background, together with an author biography,...

Il libro racconta la saga di una grande famiglia aristocratica catanese di antica origini spagnola, gli Uzeda di Francalanza. Una famiglia pronta a tutto pur di conservare la supremazia anche nella nuova, contraddittoria Italia unita. A partire dalla fatidica morte della capostipite, le vicende familiari...

"L'illusione", e il primo romanzo del "ciclo" dedicato alla famiglia Uzeda.

Il romanzo narra le vicende di don Consalvo Uzeda, principe di Francalanza, uomo ambizioso e spregiudicato, che eletto deputato, si trasferisce a Roma dalla sua Catania, e qui, approfittando del suo nome e delle sue ricchezze, riesce poco alla volta a farsi largo nella vita politica italiana. Muovendosi...

My heart brims with billows and minnows of shadows and silver Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin...

Finished just two months before the author's murder on 18 August 1936 by a gang of Franco's supporters, The House of Bernarda Alba is now accepted as Lorca's great masterpiece of love and loathing. Five daughters live together in a single household with a tyrannical mother. When the father...

En la trajedia Bodas de Sangre, dos personajes que van a casarse pronto, experimentan los celos, la violencia y la muerte, lo que va de la mano con las tradiciones andaluzas. El Romancero Gitano es un poemario que remite a la cultura y raiz popular gitana.

The sculptor Lodovico Bertini turns up on a mysterious errand at the school where a friend of his is teaching Greek. He has come, it turns out, to witness the arrival of a passenger liner, aboard which is a man whose imminent return to Italy is throwing Bertini's life into turmoil. Translated from Italian (2012) by Juan LePuen Genre: novel Length: 40,000 words

The captain of the "Siracusa" has received orders to sail for Tangiers, where rebels have seized the Italian consulate. The blue peter is hoisted, and the sirens announcing the ship's departure echo off of the hills above Livorno. From all over the city, seamen and officers begin returning...