Breve historia de los libros prohibidos

Fruto de la brillante vida intelectual que existía en el Cádiz de final del siglo XVIII, este libro es una obra prototípica de la Ilustración que destaca por la variedad de los temas tratados.

Bartolome Hidalgo (Montevideo, 1788 - Moron, Buenos Aires Province, 1822) is the first poet to have utilized the Spanish language to capture the qualities of gaucho speech His writings, comprising a series of lyrical, narrative and dialogic texts about current political concerns of the second and third decades of the 19th century in both margins of the Rio de la Plata, have been recognized by the most respected literary critics of the region -Sarmiento, Mitre, Leguizamon, Rojas, Falcao Espalter, Borges- as the initiation of this most original genre, and Hidalgo, consequently, the first...

This work features the best bibliography ever assembled on commonplace books and literature in English. The book focuses on writing, writers and the joys as well as travails of travel.

"The first major study on the works of the Mexican novelist, âAngeles Mastretta, demonstrating the rich complexity and range of the author's fiction and essays"--Provided by publisher.