Literary Theory

An Experiment in Criticism

Since its publication in 1961, this short essay on The Reading Experience has been reprinted so often that it has become a classic.

C. S. Lewis proposes an "experiment" that proceeds in the opposite...

On the Art of Reading

This is an interesting text, in which the author, who was born in Azagra (Navarra) in 1955, briefly exposes "10 theses on education and reading", the result of his pedagogical experience as a teacher, and...

The Friend

It is not a novel, but rather a diary and a small literary game. Everything parts from a real event. A friend of the writer, like her a teacher of literature and writer of some success, commits suicide....

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

This well known American literary critic thinks that Shakespeare is somehow a “natural revelation.”’ After Shakespeare there would be a new understanding of man. Specifically, the two characters who show...