Biografía y textualidades, naturaleza y subjetividad

Annotation Between 1605 and 1621, Quevedo wrote a sequence of five "Dreams" or "Visions" "(Suenos y discursos), in each of which he hilariously envisions Spanish society as populated by people rightfully condemned to Hell. These astonishingly witty and irreverent satires of contemporary Spanish culture, morality, prejudice and religious fanaticism, were composed in a style as allusive, elliptical and equivocal as to successfully entertain both those who barely understood their full range and import, and others who celebrated the poet's rebellious insinuations. Censorship prohibited the...

En las postrimerías de 1921 apareció en Ciudad de México un manifiesto (Actual no1) que constituyó la carta de presentación de uno de los movimientos de vanguardia más singulares de América Latina: el estridentismo. El libro que tiene en sus manos se propone construir la apasionante aventura de este grupo artístico-literario desde sus orígenes hasta su disolución en Xalapa en 1928. De la mano de sus protagonistas principales usted podrá averiguar las claves para la creación de una poesía de vanguardia y las conexiones del estridentismo con los movimientos artísticos más...

An examination of the form and significance of the 56 short narratives of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, based on a review of his own theoretical views on narrative, derived from his essays, prologues and vignettes, related in turn to theories of the modern novella developed by Gillespie et al.

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...