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La bufera e altro
La bufera e altro is a 1956 poetry collection by the Italian poet Eugenio Montale, his third book after Ossi di seppia and Le occasioni, centered on the war years.
La casa de cartón
La casa de cartón is a 1928 short narrative work by the Peruvian poet Martín Adán, recounting an adolescent's summer in the Lima district of Barranco.
La casa de los conejos
La casa de los conejos is an autobiographical novel by Franco-Argentine writer Laura Alcoba about her childhood in a clandestine Montoneros house in La Plata in 1975 and 1976.
La cautiva
La cautiva is a long narrative poem by the Argentine writer Esteban Echeverría, published in 1837 and considered the initial moment of Romanticism in the Río de la Plata.
La Celestina
La Celestina (Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea) is a 1499 Spanish dialogue novel attributed to Fernando de Rojas, telling of the bawd Celestina, Calisto, and Melibea; a European bestseller in over 200 early editions, translated into Italian, German, French, Dutch, and English.
La Chanson du mal-aimé
La Chanson du mal-aimé is a long lyric poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, first published in 1909 and included in Alcools in 1913, expressing the grief of an abandoned lover.
La Chastelaine de Vergi
La Chastelaine de Vergi, also known as La Châtelaine de Vergy, is an anonymous Old French verse romance of the mid-13th century, about a secret love affair whose exposure destroys everyone.
La Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse
La Deffence et illustration de la langue françoyse is a 1549 treatise by Joachim Du Bellay, manifesto of the Pléiade, urging French poetry to rival Latin.
La destrucción o el amor
La destrucción o el amor (Destruction or Love) is a 1935 poetry collection by Vicente Aleixandre, a Spanish Generation of '27 poet and 1977 Nobel laureate.
La duquesa Job
"La duquesa Job" is an 1884 poem by Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera depicting a young urban woman in Porfirian Mexico City, often called the first Mexican modernist poem.
La estación violenta
La estación violenta is a 1958 poetry collection by Octavio Paz, published in Mexico by Fondo de Cultura Económica, gathering nine poems written between 1948 and 1957.
La Fin de Satan
La Fin de Satan (The End of Satan) is an unfinished epic poem in alexandrine verse by Victor Hugo, written in exile from 1854 and published posthumously in 1886.
La Galatea
La Galatea is a pastoral novel in six books by Miguel de Cervantes, published in Alcalá de Henares in 1585 as his first printed work.
La Galigo
La Galigo, also known as Sureq Galigo, is a Bugis epic cycle from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, of pre-Islamic oral roots from about the 14th century.
La guerra gaucha
La guerra gaucha is a 1905 cycle of linked short stories by the Argentine writer Leopoldo Lugones, recounting the gaucho guerrilla war against Spanish royalist armies under Martín Miguel de Güemes.
La Jeune Captive
La Jeune Captive is an elegy by the French poet André Chénier, written in 1794 at Saint-Lazare prison and inspired by his fellow prisoner Aimée de Coigny.
La Jeune Parque
La Jeune Parque is a long French poem by Paul Valéry, published in 1917: 512 alexandrine verses that ended his twenty-year silence and made him the leading French poet.
La Légende des siècles
La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) is a poetry collection by Victor Hugo retelling human history in verse, published in installments between 1859 and 1883.
La libertà
La libertà is a canzonetta written by the Italian poet Pietro Metastasio in 1733, addressed to a woman named Nice and celebrating the poet's liberation from the bonds of love.
La muerte del cisne
La muerte del cisne (The Death of the Swan) is a 1915 book of poems by the Mexican poet Enrique González Martínez, published in Mexico City.
La palabra del mudo
La palabra del mudo (Spanish for "The word of the mute one") is the title under which Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro collected his short stories, first published in 1973.
La Pléiade
La Pléiade was a group of mid-sixteenth-century French Renaissance poets led by Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim Du Bellay, who sought to elevate the French language.
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jeanne de France
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jeanne de France is a 1913 free-verse poem by Blaise Cendrars, published in Paris as an artist's book designed by Sonia Delaunay.
La realidad y el deseo
La realidad y el deseo (The Reality and the Desire) is the complete poetry of Spanish poet Luis Cernuda, first published in Madrid in 1936 and expanded to 1964.
La Regenta
La Regenta is an 1885 novel by the Spanish writer Leopoldo Alas, known as Clarín, telling of Ana Ozores and set in Vetusta, a portrait of Oviedo.
La Satire Ménippée
La Satire Ménippée is a collective French political pamphlet in prose and verse, published in 1594 to caricature the Estates General held by the Catholic League in 1593 and to support Henri IV.
La secchia rapita
La secchia rapita ("The stolen bucket") is a mock-heroic poem by Alessandro Tassoni, first published in Paris in 1621, about a war between Bologna and Modena over a stolen wooden bucket.
La suave patria
La suave patria is a 1921 poem by Mexican poet Ramón López Velarde, written for the centenary of Mexican independence and published after his death that June.
La Tristesse d'Olympio
La Tristesse d'Olympio is an elegy by Victor Hugo, written in October 1837 after revisiting the Bièvre valley with Juliette Drouet and published in 1840.
La vida breve
La vida breve (A Short Life) is a 1950 novel by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, whose invented city Santa María recurs throughout his later fiction.