Spanish Authors & Texts
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AMERICAN AUTHORS AND TEXTS
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AUTHORS AND TEXTS
LATIN
AMERICAN
General
Colonial
19th-Century
Contemporary
LATIN
AMERICAN: GENERAL
HARVARD-ONLY ACCESS
Latin American Women Writers
Full-text literary works by Latin American women writers.
LATIN
AMERICAN: COLONIAL
Bartolomé
de las Casas's Brevísima relación de la destrucción
de las Indias
Complete
text of las Casas's denounciation of the Spanish Conquest. Available
as HTML and downloadable PDF files.
Alvar
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios
Complete
text of Cabeza de Vaca's account of his expedition and wanderings.
PDF.
Christopher
Columbus's Diary
Extracts
from Colón's first voyage. In English.
Hernán
Cortés's "Segunda Carta de Relación"
Long
extracts from Cortés's second report to Charles V. In English.
Inca
Garcilaso de la Vega
Site
devoted to the great historian. Biography, video file, reproduction
of the title pages of the first editions to his works, link to
the complete texts of his translation of Leon Hebreo's Love
Dialogues and La Florida(now under revision).
Sor
Juana Inés's "Primero sueño"
Complete
text of Sor Juana's most important poem.
Sor
Juana Ines's "Respuesta a Sor Filotea"
Complete
text of Sor Juana Ines's defense.
The
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project
Site
built by the Dartmouth College Spanish Department. Text of Sor
Juana's Complete Works, search engine, biography, bibliography
(unfortunately, only up to 1998), etc.
Guamán
Poma de Ayala's El primer Nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Digital
reproduction of the complete manuscript of Guamán Poma's
Work. Under the direction of Prof. Rolena Adorno, Yale University.
Visión
de los vencidos
Complete
text of Miguel León Portilla's annotated collection of
indigenous chronicles of the Spanish conquest of México.
LATIN
AMERICAN: 19TH-CENTURY
Julián
del Casal
Selected
poems and biography available.
Dariana
Site
devoted to Rubén Dario. Selected poems, biography, bibliography,
etc.
José
Hernández's Martín Fierro
Complete
texts of Martín Fierroand La vuelta de Martín
Fierro, in HTML and PDF.
José
Martí
Complete
poems by Martí, and a selection of his prose.
Domingo
Faustino Sarmiento's Vida de Juan Facundo Quiroga
Complete
text of Sarmiento's work about American "civilización
y barbarie."
José
Asunción Silva
More
than forty poems by the Colombian poet.
LATIN
AMERICAN: CONTEMPORARY
HARVARD-ONLY ACCESS
The Life and Works of Jorge Luis Borges
A database of materials on Borges, including manuscripts and letters, books, periodicals, photographs, audio and video recordings and newspaper clippings. It includes full-text search capability (although not all of his works), primary and secondary bibliography, and a topical encyclopedia relating to Borges' work.
UNIVERSAL ACCESS
Roberto Arti
Roberto Artl
Biography, bibliography of primary and secondary sources, gallery of images, related links.
Alcides Arguedas
Alcides Arguedas's Raza de bronce
Selections from the Chilean novel. Complete version in a PDF available.
Jorge Luis Borges
Borgesian Cyclopedia
Excerpts from books, copies of articles, interviews.
Jorge Luis Borges
Biography, related links.
Jorge Luis Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths
Portal of online papers and articles, communities, book reviews, links.
La vida y la obra de Jorge Luis Borges
A bio-bibliographical page with links to full-text of four works; also includes news, suggested reading, filmography.
Julio Cortázar
Catedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar
Official site of the research center created in 1993 at the Universidad de Guadalajara. Includes history, activities, participants, etc.
El perseguidor
Biography, bibliography, online texts, films, audio, links to other sites.
La Pagina de Julio Cortázar
Chronology of Cortázar's life and works. Links to photos and other sites.
La página de los enlaces a Julio Cortázar
Vicente Huidobro
Vicente Huidobro
Complete poems, manuscripts, biography, bibliography, essays about Huidobro's work and time, related links, etc.
Luis Palés Matos
Luis Palés Matos
Biography and twenty poems available.
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral
Around twenty poems available, along with a biography and a bibliography.
Pablo Neruda
134 poemas de Neruda
Horatio Quiroga
Horacio
Quiroga
Includes
a few short stories and his "Decálogo del perfecto
cuentista."
José Eustasio Rivera
José Eustasio Rivera's La vorágine
Complete
text of Rivera's novel. Free registration required.
Juan Rulfo
Juan Rulfo
Biography, bibliography, interview, online articles, gallery of Rulfo´s photography, newsletter and more. This site requires Flash.
César Vallejo
César Vallejo
Biography, historical background and the text of a dozen of poems.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Biography, bibliography, related links and text of his short-story "Los jefes."
José
Vasconcelos
José
Vasconcelos's "La raza cósmica"
Complete
text of Vasconcelos's essay.
PENINSULAR
General
Medieval
Golden Age
18th-Century
19th-Century
PENINSULAR:
GENERAL
Collección
de Cibertextos
Virtual
library of Spanish Classics, ranging from the Cantar de Mio
Cid to Leopoldo Alas Clarin´s La Regenta. Under
the direction of Prof. Miguel Garci-Gómez, Duke University.
PENINSULAR:
MEDIEVAL
Alfonso
X´s Cantigas de Santa María
A
very complete site. Facsimilies, illuminations, transcriptions
and related links, from music samples to translations.
Gonzalo de Berceo's Complete Works
A
very comprehesive site on the first known Spanish poet. Complete
works, biography, introduction to the historical and literary
background, glossary, sources, gallery, studies, among other features.
Cantar de Mio Cid
Extensive resource from the University of Texas, including an oral rendering of the entire text, accompanied by scanned images of the original manuscript.
Jorge
Manrique´s Coplas por la muerte de su padre
Text
of the Coplas, along with Rafael Alberti´s reading
and Paco Ibañez´s singing of the poem (a low-quality,
32Kbps MP3, requires Windows Media Player).
Don
Juan Manuel's Conde de Lucanor
The prologue and a few exemplos from the Conde
de Lucanor.
Jarchas
Mozarabes in English
Translated
and edited by Samuel G. Armistead and James J. Wilhelm.
Jarchas
Mozaribe
Introduction by Emilio Garcia Gomez and text of
30 jarchas. Transcriptions from the Arabic and readings of each
text by a number of scholars available.
Juan
Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor
Complete text of the Arcipreste's masterpiece,
reproducing the edition of Clasicos Castellanos. Introduction
and a short bibliography available.
PENINSULAR:
GOLDEN AGE
Mateo
Alemán´s Guzmán de Alfarache
Complete
text of Alemán´s novel. Edited by Prof. Garci-Gómez.
A concordance is available.
Pedro
Calderón de la Barca
Site
built under the direction of Prof. Evangelina Rodríguez
Cuadros, Universidad de Valencia. Among other features, studies,
essays, gallery of images, multimedia and a collection of related
links are available.
Calderón´s El alcalde de Zalamea
Reproduces
the text in Jose María Ruano de la Haza´s edition
for Espasa Calpe.
Calderón´s El gran teatro del mundo
Edited
by Miguel Garci-Gómez. Text and concordance available.
Calderón´s La vida es sueño
Reproduces
the text in Evangelina Rodríguez Cuadros´s edition
for Espasa Calpe.
Cervantes Digital Library
Site
built under the direction of Dr. Eduardo Urbina, Texas A&M
University. Online searchable, browsable, and browsable graphic
editions, along with translations, are available. Rudolph Schevill
and Adolfo Bonilla´s (1914-1941), and Florencio Sevilla
Arroyo and Antonio Rey Hazas´s (1993-1995) editions of Cervantes´s
Complete Works. Facsimilies of the Princeps editions (1605, 1615).
Miguel de Cervantes´s Complete Works
Site
built by the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. It contains
links to the Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes, divided into
three categories: Narrative, Drama and Poetry. The texts have
no notes, although all preliminary texts are included. Among other
features, a search engine to find a particular word, an electronic
forum, and a list related links are available.
Miguel de Cervantes´s Don Quijote de la Mancha
Annotated
text as established in the so-called definite edition directed
by Francisco Rico for Editorial Crítica. All footnotes
and end notes in the paper edition are reproduced here. Unfortunately,
it is difficult to identify the primary and secondary works cited
in the notes, as no bibliography seems to have been included.
Miguel de Cervantes´s La Galatea
Under
the direction of Prof. Miguel Garci-Gómez. Text and concordance
available.
San
Juan de la Cruz
Text
of all his poems, as established by Francisco Yndurain in his
edition for Cátedra. English translations of all the poems.
None of his commentaries are available, only the second versión
of the Cántico espiritual is included.
Luis
de Góngora´s Fabula de Píramo y Tisbe
Annotated
edition, with a very complete series of footnotes that cite a
great number of texts of the time. Among others, the commentaries
of Pellicer, Salazar Mardones y Jammes are used to explain difficult
passages.
Luis
de Gongora´s Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
Text
as established by Anita Arroyo in her edition of Poesías
de Luis de Góngora for Porrúa. No notes, no
English translation.
Luis
de Gongora´s Poetry
Texts
of all the poems by Luis de Góngora, as established in
a number of scholarly editions.
Luis de Góngora´s Soledades
Text
as established by Anita Arroyo in her edition of Poesías
de Luis de Góngora for Porrúa. No notes, no
English translation.
Fray Luis de León
Text
of all his original poems, as established by Juan Francisco Alcina
in his edition for Cátedra. English translations of all
the poems. None of his translations of the Song of Songs are
available.
Francisco
de Quevedo´s Poetry
All
his poems, texts from a number of scholarly editions. No notes
provided.
Quevedo´s El buscón
Edited
by Prof. Garci-Gómez. Text and concordance available.
Lazarillo
de Tormes
Complete
text, along with introductory essays about the picarescaand
the pícaro.
Garcilaso
de la Vega´s Poetry
The
Amigos de Garcilaso de la Vega´s Site. Complete works, biography,
bibliography, historical background, electronic forum, etc. “A
meeting point for the world Garcilasistas.”
Lope
de Vega´s Fuenteovejuna
Edited
by Prof. Garci-Gómez. Text and concordance available.
Lope
de Vega´s La dama boba
Text
and concordance available.
Lope
de Vega´s Peribañez
Edited
by Prof. Garci-Gómez. Text and concordance available.
Lope
de Vega´s Poetry
Most
of his poems, texts from a number of scholarly editions.
PENINSULAR:
18TH-CENTURY
PENINSULAR:
19TH-CENTURY
Leopoldo
Alas´s La Regenta
Complete
text of Alas´s masterpiece. Includes Benito Pérez
Galdos´s “Prologue” and audio files of some of
the first chapters.
Leopoldo
Alas's Work
Complete
texts of Clarín´s novels, articles, essays, reviews
and short stories. Audio files, manuscripts, electronic forum
and concordance available.
Emilia
Pardo Bazan´s Works
Complete
texts of Los pazos de Ulloa and La madre naturaleza,
along with some other fiction and a few critical essays. Electronic
forum available.
Gustavo
Adolfo Becquer´s Leyendas
Text
of all of Becquer´s tales.
Gustavo
Adolfo Becquer´s Rimas
Complete
poems of the Sevillian poet.
Rosalia
de Castro´s Selected Poems
Selection
of Rosalía de Castro´s poems. Includes the original
text in Galego and a Spanish translation of the poems from Cantares
gallegos and Follas novas.
Benito
Pérez Galdós´s Work
Complete
texts of all his Episodios nacionales, novels and plays.
It also includes a biography, online articles, audio files, a
gallery of images,
and a concordance.
Projecto
Mariano José de Larra
Site
devoted to Larra´s work. Complete text of more than fifty
articles,
bibliography, online papers, among other features.
José
Zorrilla´s Don Juan Tenorio
Digital
edition resulting from the study of a number of previous scholarly
editions.
PENINSULAR:
CONTEMPORARY
(Note:
Due to copyright restrictions, it becomes increasingly difficult
to find online editions of works belonging to this period.)
Rafael
Alberti´s Selected Poems
More
than sixty poems by the Andalusian poet.
Vicente
Aleixandre´s Selected Poems
More
than forty poems by the Andalusian 1977 Nobel Prize winner.
Fundación
Camilo José Cela
Site
devoted to the 1989 Nobel Prize winner. Biography, bibliography,
and other information available.
Luis
Cernuda´s Selected Poems
More
than forty poems by the Sevillian poet.
Federico
García Lorca
Tres 'websites' vuelcan en la red documentos, manuscritos y cartas del autor de 'Yerma'.
Federico
García Lorca
La Biblioteca Virtua.
Federico
García Lorca´s Complete Works
Text
of Lorca´s complete works, as established in the Aguilar
edition.
Jaime
Gil de Biedma
Almost
twenty of his best poems, along with a biography and a link to
an audio file of Gil de Biedma's reading of "Contra Gil de
Biedma"
Album
Pere Gimferrer
Site
built under the direction of Dr. Enric Bou, Brown University.
It explores the many faces of Gimferrer's rich work, from his
early poetry in Spanish to his production in Catalan.
Ramón
Gómez de la Serna
Site
devoted to his life and work. Biography, bibliography, news, newsletter,
electronic forum.
Fundación
Jorge Guillén
Site
devoted to Jorge Guillén and his work.
Jorge
Guillén´s Selected Poems
More
than forty poems available.
Antonio
Machado: A Basic Anthology
Javier
Marías
Javier
Marías official site. Biography, bibliography, reviews,
essays, articles, related links, electronic forum, etc.
Abel
Martín,
journal about Antonio Machado
Site
devoted to the Sevillian poet. Online articles, student guide,
bibliography, related links, selected poems.
Ana
Rossetti
Texts
and audio files of Rossetti's readings of a dozen of poems.
Pedro
Salinas´s Selected Poems
More
than fifty poems available.
Miguel
de Unamuno
Site
devoted to Miguel de Unamuno. Poems, images and essays, including “Del sentimiento trágico de la vida”, along with
a biography and articles about his work.
José
Angel Valente
Text
of more than twenty of Valente's best poems.
El
pasajero, journal
about Ramón del Valle Inclán
El
pasajero, online journal about Valle
Inclán and his work, elaborated by the Department de Filologia
Espanyola of the Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona.
Last updated on May 19, 2009
