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This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
prose; reprinted as Great Spanish Plays in English Translation (1991) ISBN 0-486-26898-5: La Vida es Sueño: Life is a Dream: 1963: Alpern, Hymen: Three Classic Spanish Plays: El gran teatro del mundo: The Great Stage of the World: 1964: Brandt, George W. The Great Stage of the World: An Allegorical Auto Sacramental in Three Acts/Gran teatro ...
Braschi writes cross-genre literature and political philosophy in Spanish, Spanglish, and English. [1] Her work is a hybrid of poetry, metafiction , postdramatic theatre , memoir, manifesto, and political philosophy . [ 2 ]
The Spanish Tragedy [55] is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592, which was popular and influential in its time, and established a new genre in English literature theatre, the revenge play.
Larra establishes the origin of the modern literature of customs in England since Addison [5] ’s The Spectator.. Another view of the costumbrismo was the new possibility of travelling, a romantic passion that created the literary descriptive model of the libros de viajes (literally, books of traveling), usually more focused on the pictures and hackneyed things and simple impressions or ...
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (/ ˈ b ɔːr h ɛ s / BOR-hess; [2] Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.
For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.
The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain’s conquest of the Americas (see Latin American literature).