About Spanish literature

Sobre literatura española: ensayos breves de crítica literaria presents a critical analysis of some of the major works and authors of Spanish literature. Through a series of essays the book examines the themes styles and historical contexts that have shaped narrative and theater in Spain. The essays range from the exile of Juan Ramón Jiménez and his wife Zenobia Camprubí the blood cleansing statutes in the work of Cervantes the bohemia of Madrid between the centuries the aesthetics of the Romantics patriarchy in Lorca's work and the myth of Carmen.