Obra desmesurada cuya enorme extensión ha hecho sumamente azarosa su trayectoria editorial, la "Anatomía de la melancolía" (1621) es un minucioso examen de un rasgo propio de numerosos temperamentos humanos que, vinculado...
Una república poética es el sueño utópico de Robert Burton, el desmedido autor de Anatomía de la melancolía, maestro de la prosa barroca inglesa y uno de los raros por excelencia de la literatura europea.
The Anatomy of Melancholy is, quite self-consciously, the book to end all books. The immensely widely read Robert Burton compiled it from the books that existed in a 17th-century library in order to explain and account for all human emotion and thought....
The Anatomy of Melancholy is, quite self-consciously, the book to end all books. The immensely widely read Robert Burton compiled it from the books that existed in a 17th-century library in order to explain and account for all human emotion and thought....
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