Historia de la literatura universal, 1

The famous History of Universal Literature is the most complete and lucid synthesis that exists in Spanish on the literatures of all times, from its most remote origins to the gates of the 21st century. With an agile prose and a suggestive critical spirit, Martín de Riquer and José María Valverde offer an in-depth analysis of the main writers and works, while providing a global vision of the different literary movements and events. In this first volume, after an immersion in the oriental literatures that have found projection on Europe (Sanskrit, Hebrew and Arabic), the works bequeathed by Greece and Rome are analyzed, to open the way to the Middle Ages and the European Renaissance, until the baroque era.