by Roger Bartra · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433961624
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«Cultura y melancolía» is the essay by Roger Bartra, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (270 pages, in Spanish).
Essay on melancholy as the foundation of modern culture and its manifestation in Golden Age Spain. Bartra analyses the ailments of the baroque soul from an anthropological perspective and shows, through Don Quixote, how the myth of melancholy became integrated into modernity and resonated in Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
The book belongs to Anagrama's Argumentos collection (no. 271) and bears the subtitle «Las enfermedades del alma en la España del Siglo de Oro».
It is aimed at readers interested in the literary essay, the cultural history of the Spanish Baroque and anthropology.
Roger Bartra Murià is a Mexican sociologist and anthropologist. He is the son of the exiled Catalan writers Agustí Bartra and Anna Murià, who settled in Mexico after the defeat of the democratic forces in the Spanish Civil War. Roger Bartra is recognized as one of the most important contemporary social scientists in Latin America.
