Product Description: La obra de Gracián no es sólo un clásico universal, sino que ya en los últimos años del siglo XX se produjo una nueva lectura que fascinó a los líderes del mundo más avanzado, y esto hizo que se convirtiera en un bestseller en Europa y los Estados Unidos...read more

Product Description: El Político (1640), cuyo título completo es El político don Fernando el Católico, es una obra literaria perteneciente a la prosa didáctica de Baltasar Gracián en la que, bajo la forma de una tesis que defiende que Fernando el Católico fue el mayor rey de la monarquía española, se describen sus dotes políticas y sus virtudes como ejemplo a emular para el hombre...read more

Balthasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) assumed his final vows of the Jesuits in 1635, having been raised by his uncle, a priest, and studying theology in Zaragoza, Spain. Gracián became quite famous as a preacher, and wrote a number of literary works concerning politics, practical advice for life, and philosophy. Today he is known as the most representative writer of the Spanish baroque style called Conceptismo (Conceptism), a literary style characterized by succinct and subtle expressions of witty, significant ideas. "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" is a collection of about three hundred maxims and advice with commentary. His poetic use of rhetoric made Gracián appealing to readers, but because he published much of his work without the permission of his superiors, he was chastised by the church, and eventually sanctioned and exiled. This book was Gracián's most internationally popular work, and was translated into German by Schopenhauer, and into English by Joseph Jacobs in 1892.

Balthasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) assumed his final vows of the Jesuits in 1635, having been raised by his uncle, a priest, and studying theology in Zaragoza, Spain. Gracián became quite famous as a preacher, and wrote a number of literary works concerning politics, practical advice for life, and philosophy. Today he is known as the most representative writer of the Spanish baroque style called Conceptismo (Conceptism), a literary style characterized by succinct and subtle expressions of witty, significant ideas. "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" is a collection of about three hundred maxims and advice with commentary. His poetic use of rhetoric made Gracián appealing to readers, but because he published much of his work without the permission of his superiors, he was chastised by the church, and eventually sanctioned and exiled. This book was Gracián's most internationally popular work, and was translated into German by Schopenhauer, and into English by Joseph Jacobs in 1892.

Product Description: El Criticón es una obra maestra de la literatura universal. Gracián expresa el desengaño del mundo mientras intenta dar una lección moral. El Criticón viaja a través de las edades del hombre mediante el diálogo entre uno maduro, Critilo (encarna el juicio y la reflexión) y otro joven, Andrenio (criado por una fiera, hombre natural y sin contacto social)...read more

Baltasar Gracián’s Art of Worldly Wisdom offers practical advice on how to make your way in a chaotic world, and how to make it well. The three hundred aphorisms contained here, first published as Oraculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia in 1647, remain remarkably relevant today.  The political and social upheavals of Spain’s Golden Era bear a striking resemblance to 21st century reality--political transformations, economic battles that pit local interests against global forces, competing religious outlooks seeking to shape secular worlds, and new technologies torn between democratization and centralization.  Gracián’s aphorisms, as much poetry as instruction, address us today as practical guides for civility in an often uncivil world, and may serve as invitations to participate in making an uncivil world as civil as possible.

Product Description: Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647) es un tratado práctico, concebido para que el pensamiento y los principios abstractos se supediten a la situaciones de la vida en una mezcla equilibrada entre ingenio cotidiano y saber filosófico...read more

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Product Description: , Jesuita, adepto a la filosofía estoica, en estas dos obras, publicadas originalmente con seudónimo, el autor se explaya sobre la elocuencia, la elegancia y la seducción, también sobre la dignidad del hombre. La edición, a cargo de J...read more

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Product Description: En los aforismos de Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647), Gracián reflexiona sobre la verdadera naturaleza del éxito. Este es el eje central de El criticón (tres partes, que aparecieron en 1651, 1653 y 1657), novela alegórica que gira en torno a las peripecias de los dos protagonistas: Andrenio, el buen salvaje que vive en estado natural, y Critilo, el individuo sagaz, prudente y razonable...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Su producción se adscribe a la corriente literaria del conceptismo. Forjó un estilo construido a partir de sentencias breves muy personal, denso, concentrado y polisémico, en el que domina el juego de palabras y las asociaciones ingeniosas entre estas y las ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "El Discreto", de Baltasar Gracián. Baltasar Gracián fue un escritor español del barroco (1601-1658)

A new translation of the well-known book of aphorisms offers readers a wealth of advice on how to live and work within a society governed by self-interest