Search results for ""Author Tomas Gonzalez""

Este volumen ofrece la primera edición crítica,en bilingüe y atendiendo a todos los testimoniosmanuscritos latinos y romances, de la primera partedel Breuiloquium de amore et amicitia y su autotraducción,Tratado de amor y amiçiçia, tituladaDe amore.En la obra, El Tostado determina que son dos cosasdiferentes amor y amicitia, amación y amiçiçia,y deja claro que el amor es un acto pasional, unapasión, pero que a pesar de ello tiene una expresiónexcelente, por cuanto con amor pasional se ama aDios.Suele incluirse entre sus obras de naturaleza políticao sociopolítica y entronca con el humanismo cívico,si bien no han faltado estudiosos que la han calificadocomo obra amatoria. El Breuiloquium se enmarca enla corriente literario-filosófica conocida como naturalismoamoroso, característica del final de la EdadMedia en la corte de Juan II.

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Over twenty years after his son's death, nearly blind and unable to paint, David turns to writing to examine the deep shades of his loss. Despite his acute pain, or perhaps because of it, David observes beauty in the ordinary: in the resemblance of a woman to Egyptian portraits, in the horseshoe crabs that wash up on Coney Island, in the foam gathering behind a ferry propeller; in these moments, Gonzalez reveals the world through a painter's eyes. From one of Colombia's greatest contemporary novelists, Difficult Light is a formally daring meditation on grief, written in candid, arresting prose.

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By one of Colombia's most acclaimed contemporary novelists, The Storm is an atmospheric, gripping portrait of the tensions that devastate one family. Twins Mario and Jose do not know how to cope with the hatred they feel for their father, an arrogant man whose pride seems to taint everything he touches. Over the course of a fateful fishing trip straight into the heart of a storm, father and sons are confronted with the unspoken secrets and resentments that are destroying them.

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