Cuauhtli y el Niño Poeta

El villano nos fascina tanto como el héroe, incluso más, en algunos casos. Muchos creadores y autores han cuidado con más mimo al personaje malvado de sus ficciones que al propio héroe, que muchas veces suele ser plano y poco interesante. ¿Por qué nos atraen los personajes más malos de la ficción? ¿Mentes perversas o genios incomprendidos? En el interior de este libro hay un repaso por las personalidades más viles de la historia de la literatura, el cine y los cómics. 66 villanos en 6 capítulos...el libro más malvado de la historia. Manu González, autor de "Ciudades...

Each title in this series, created by teachers and writers, provides a complete and thoughtful analysis of several of the most valuable works of world literature. Intended as a starting point for a better understanding and appreciation of literature, each analysis also imparts information about the author, social and historical background information, structure and traditions of literary genres, facts about characters, and a bibliography to encourage further intellectual exploration. Esta coleccion es una herramienta indispensable para el estudio y analisis de obras clasicas de la literatura...

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...

The book offers an in-depth, critical appreciation of seven major Spanish poets. Emphasis is on the modern period, with five of the poets being twentieth-century poets. It is argued that the roots of modern poetry are to be found in Romanticism's anguished search for meaning. The seven Spanish poets include Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, Garcia Lorca and Rafael Alberti.