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Some of the work of Goya can be seen as prefiguring costumbrismo, especially as practiced in Madrid.Here, the Fight with Cudgels, one of Goya's Black Paintings.. Antecedents to costumbrismo can be found as early as the 17th century (for example in the work of playwright Juan de Zabaleta) and the current becomes clearer in the 18th century (Diego de Torres Villarroel, José Clavijo y Fajardo ...
The Eyes of My Princess (Los ojos de mi princesa) is a young-adult novel written by Mexican author Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez. [1] Published in 2004, the novel tells the story of a teenager that falls in love with a girl at school and has to overcome a lot of problems to be with her.
Cantiga de amigo (Portuguese: [kɐ̃ˈtiɣɐ ð(j) ɐˈmiɣu], Galician: [kanˈtiɣɐ ðɪ aˈmiɣʊ]) or cantiga d'amigo (Galician-Portuguese spelling), literally "friend song", is a genre of medieval lyric poetry, more specifically the Galician-Portuguese lyric, apparently rooted in a female-voiced song tradition native to the northwest quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula.
Created by Josep Cister and Jaime Vaca, [5] La otra mirada was produced by RTVE in collaboration with Boomerang TV. [6] It was known as Alma Mater during pre-production. [ 7 ] The episodes of season 1 were directed by Luis Santamaría, Mar Olid, Fernando González Molina , Miguel del Arco and Pablo Guerrero. [ 8 ]
La Virgen Cabeza (English: Slum Virgin) [1] is the debut novel by Argentine writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, published in 2009 by Eterna Cadencia. [2] The plot tells the story of Cleopatra—a travesti who is revered as a saint in a slum in Buenos Aires after she begins to communicate with the Virgin Mary—and her love affair with Qüity, a reporter from a sensationalist media outlet. [3]
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío (US: / d ɑː ˈ r iː oʊ / dah-REE-oh, [1] [2] Spanish: [ruˈβen daˈɾi.o]), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century.
The most important of these include the Classics of Confucianism, of Daoism, of Mohism, of Legalism, as well as works of military science (e.g. Sun Tzu's The Art of War, c. 5th century BC) and Chinese history (e.g. Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, c. 94 BC). Ancient Chinese literature had a heavy emphasis on historiography, with ...
The last short story, "Under the House", ties all of these stories together by presenting them as the memories of the male protagonist, who seems to become empowered by the act of remembering. [3] The novel won the Premio Quinto Sol prize for literature in 1970 [4] and has since been adapted into a movie. [5]