La pell de brau has been called the most important book to appear in Spain in the 1960s. Grappling with themes of national, racial, and cultural identity, its frankness exhilarated and inspired the yo
La pell de brau has been called the most important book to appear in Spain in the 1960s. Grappling with themes of national, racial, and cultural identity, its frankness exhilarated and inspired the yo
The Nobel Prize winning Provencal poet shares memories, anecdotes, stories, folksongs, and poetry from his past and describes rural life in the south of France
The Time of the Doves, the powerfully written story of a na?ve shop-tender during the Spanish Civil War and beyond, is a rare and moving portrait of a simple soul confronting and surviving a convulsi
My Christina & Other StoriesYears after her death, Merce Rodoreda's work is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance. The seventeen stories that comprise this volume vary tremendously in tone and styl
Examines historical implication and the interactions between learned and popular cultures and between folktales and serious literature, through an analysis of the eighteenth-century French fable "Jean
This is the first twentieth-century study of the women troubadours who flourished in Southern France between 1150 and 1250--the great period of troubadour poetry. The book is comprised of a full-leng
