Literature in Spanish
From Spain's Golden Age to the poets of Latin America — what the great works in Spanish are about and why they are still read.
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- Lazarillo de Tormes Summary: The Blind Man, the Stingy Priest and the First Picaresque Novel
A hungry boy serves a blind beggar, a stingy priest and a broke squire. What happens in Lazarillo de Tormes and why Spain banned it.
- Rubén Darío and Modernismo: How a Nicaraguan Poet Changed Spanish Poetry
Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan poet who started modernismo: his life, his key books Azul and Prosas profanas, and why he is called the Prince of Letters.
- What Is Don Quixote About? Cervantes' Knight Who Fought Windmills
Don Quixote is Cervantes' novel about a man who reads so many chivalry books that he becomes a knight. Here is the story, its meaning and the phrases it left.
- Who Was Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz? Mexico's \"Tenth Muse\" and Her Fight to Learn
A child prodigy who read Latin at three, became a nun to keep studying and defended women's right to learn: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz explained.